Or you could use http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ which is part of the Fedora package.
youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAQpU5sg-P4' will nicely grab the highest resolution video on that URL. >________________________________ >From: Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> >To: lugd <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:09 PM >Subject: [ilugd] Youtube videos > >Hi, > >Apropos of an earlier thread about Youtube videos in /tmp , it still >does work the same way as earlier. The only thing that has happened >is that the Flash player has become smarter, and probably just deletes >the .flv file after opening it, so that it is no longer visible, but >still exists. > >One can locate it through: >* Find the PID of the Flash player plugin > pgrep -f libflashplayer.so > This will give one a number like 4534 >* Muck through /proc for that process (the one with PID 4534): > ls -1l /proc/4534/fd/ | grep \/tmp\/Flash > should show you some file named, e.g., /tmp/FlashXXbw4rZA > and it will probably also say "(deleted)", e.g., something like > lrwx------ 1 user group 64 2011-06-24 03:03 16 -> >/tmp/FlashXXbw4rZA (deleted) >* Simply copy this file to xyz.flv, i.e., > cp /proc/4534/fd/16 xyz.flv > >Look ma, no fancy GUI apps! > >Regards, >Gora > >_______________________________________________ >Ilugd mailing list >[email protected] >http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
