installing youtube-dl is a snap on most *nix $ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
or $ pip install youtube-dl once installed if you can use back ticks in the ffmpeg command as such: $ ffmpeg -re -i "`youtube-dl -f bestaudio -g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=holhZM1OpTc`"; -c:a mp3 -b:a 256k audio_only.mp3 you will need ffmpeg built with openssl enabled to access https:// > On Apr 29, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Moritz Barsnick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Kath, > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 05:02:03 +0100, kath g wrote: >> Can we stream and save audio from YouTube using ffmpeg. The audio is about >> 10 hrs long. I use manjaro with ffmpeg. > > Is it really a stream or a static video? > > Static videos - and often even audio only - can be downloaded with the > tool youtube-dl: http://yt-dl.org/ > With its "-F" option, you can figure out the formats (some are > audio-only). With "-f <format>" or "-f bestaudio", you can tell > youtube-dl to grab you that audio. Or you can query the URL by adding > "-g", and pass the given URL to ffmpeg. > > ffmpeg can also be built with libquvi support, where ffmpeg would > directly understand a YouTube URL. I don't know whether that works > anymore though. > (If you don't build ffmpeg youself, you can figure out libquvi support > by running: > $ ffmpeg -formats | grep quvi > and checking for this line: > D libquvi libquvi demuxer > ) > > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
