On Fri 22 Dec 2017 at 15:04:06 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I use User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 > Firefox/51.0 SeaMonkey/2.48 on a Debian Stretch machine with the MATE > desktop. > > I've never used youtube before. > I received a link to a youtube video > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_bPWyrPFc> which played fine.
A mini howto is coming up. > I did not have time to watch the whole video. > How can I download and save it? What does Debian have relating to youtube? apt search youtube | less What can Debian do about downloading a youtube video on Stretch? youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_bPWyrPFc [youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Downloading webpage [youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Extracting video information WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname [youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Downloading MPD manifest WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv. [download] Destination: Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.f137.mp4 [download] 44.0% of 562.32MiB at 674.29KiB/s ETA 07:58 and so on until 100% ......... [download] 100% of 38.35MiB in 00:56 [ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv" Deleting original file Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.f137.mp4 (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.f251.webm (pass -k to keep) brian@desktop:~$ ls -l Noodle\ Pi\ -\ Linux\ Powered\ Modular\ PDA\ _\ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv -rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 629306844 Dec 20 05:10 Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv > Its content is something I will wish to review and my data cap is > low enough that I can not just repeatedly access it If I didn't get > some point the creator was making. How can I view the downloaded video? brian@desktop:~$ vlc Noodle\ Pi\ -\ Linux\ Powered\ Modular\ PDA\ _\ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv > Is there some way to pause a video if I'm interrupted? No problem with vlc. > I did some searches of Synaptic. There were some hopeful hits. Their > homepages didn't tell me if they could do what I want. > > I did some web searches but again came away confused. > I suspect I'm using wrong search terms &/or there is some underlying > assumption that I'm missing. 'apt search' is the man! -- Brian.