nzviddl - download video from NZ news sites
Hi all I have uploaded a series for scripts I use to watch the videos from NZ news sites to my public github. http://github.com/llnz/nzviddl The scripts work similar to youtube-dl which downloads the videos from YouTube so they can be watched. Basically, you pass the argument of the url of the webpage with the video on it, and the script downloads the flv video file so you can watch it with your favorite video player. Handy for those of us that for whatever reason don't have a flash player. For example: tvnz-dl http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/helping-blind-see-light-in- christchurch-3078178/video (without the obvious email line wrapping) They currently cover these sites: www.tvnz.co.nz (news and on-demand in separate scripts) www.3news.co.nz www.nzherald.co.nz www.primetv.co.nz www.ch9.co.nz (Dunedin local channel) I'm currently looking at TV3 on-demand, but it appears much more complex than the sites above. Hopefully others find them useful. Over time, I may refactor them to have more features and maybe bring them into one program. Suggestions are welcome, as are patches. Later Lee Begg
Re: nzviddl - download video from NZ news sites
FWIW, has anyone written a script to translate from flv or swf to mp4 or an ogg format? I know you can do it with ffmpeg, but the options, etc, look hairy to me. Thanks Wesley Parish On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Lee Begg wrote: Hi all I have uploaded a series for scripts I use to watch the videos from NZ news sites to my public github. http://github.com/llnz/nzviddl The scripts work similar to youtube-dl which downloads the videos from YouTube so they can be watched. Basically, you pass the argument of the url of the webpage with the video on it, and the script downloads the flv video file so you can watch it with your favorite video player. Handy for those of us that for whatever reason don't have a flash player. For example: tvnz-dl http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/helping-blind-see-light-in- christchurch-3078178/video (without the obvious email line wrapping) They currently cover these sites: www.tvnz.co.nz (news and on-demand in separate scripts) www.3news.co.nz www.nzherald.co.nz www.primetv.co.nz www.ch9.co.nz (Dunedin local channel) I'm currently looking at TV3 on-demand, but it appears much more complex than the sites above. Hopefully others find them useful. Over time, I may refactor them to have more features and maybe bring them into one program. Suggestions are welcome, as are patches. Later Lee Begg -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: nzviddl - download video from NZ news sites
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz wrote: FWIW, has anyone written a script to translate from flv or swf to mp4 or an ogg format? I know you can do it with ffmpeg, but the options, etc, look hairy to me. ogg and mp4 are containers. You also need to decide what codecs you want to use. You'll also lose quality if you re-encode to another codec. You shouldn't lose quality if you just want to switch to another container, although not all codecs will fit in all containers. But anway I am sure google will answer your question.
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