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.
