On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 23:17 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > If you want to download the raw FLV video that's being streamed through a > SWF file on a web page, you can use the youtube-dl package (included in > Etch) or the VideoDownload addon for Firefox.
I use clive (available in Debian) to download flash videos and ffmpeg to convert them to AVI's. I'm always getting emails and so forth with links to YouTube videos, which I generally do want to watch, but not at that particular moment. So I paste the URL into a text file, then every so often run clive -y < yturls.txt which downloads all the FLV files from YouTube in one go (the '-y' option just tells clive to go ahead and download without asking for confirmation). Any that I like and want to save I convert with ffmpeg -i goodvideo.flv goodvideo.avi. You can tell clive to download and convert in one go, but since I really only convert maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]