Greetings all! What I want to do: 1. Download a certain series of YouTube videos and store them locally in a suitable format (MP3?) such that each can be viewed from the local file. 2. Merge these into a single video DVD to make a "medley" which can be played straight through from the DVD. Advice on how to do #1, and (if that is possible) how to proceed to #2, would be most welcome! Platform: Debian Etch or Lenny (both available). With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 13-Jul-09 Time: 11:40:56 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
Hi, On 13/07/2009, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
Greetings all!
What I want to do: 1. Download a certain series of YouTube videos and store them locally in a suitable format (MP3?) such that each can be viewed from the local file.
YouGrabber has worked in the past but doesn't work for all content. What I've found lately is that when I play *any* YouTube video, a file appears as /tmp/Flash????? that can be played directly by MPlayer. All you have to do is to cp the file... Very strange - not noticed that before and I'm not running anything special in Firefox except FlashBlocker. Good luck, Srdjan
On 13-Jul-09 11:06:32, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi, On 13/07/2009, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
Greetings all!
What I want to do: 1. Download a certain series of YouTube videos and store them locally in a suitable format (MP3?) such that each can be viewed from the local file.
YouGrabber has worked in the past but doesn't work for all content.
What I've found lately is that when I play *any* YouTube video, a file appears as /tmp/Flash????? that can be played directly by MPlayer. All you have to do is to cp the file... Very strange - not noticed that before and I'm not running anything special in Firefox except FlashBlocker.
Good luck, Srdjan
Thanks, that's a useful start. The Flash?????? file stays in /tmp after the video has finished playing on YouTube, though it is deleted when you start the next YouTube video so must be saved before moving on. However, while I can see the video graphics fine when I play the resulting file using 'totem', I get no sound. Does that mean that there is a separate file for the audio tracks? Or is it a quirk of 'totem'? (I don't have mplayer installed). Thanks again, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 13-Jul-09 Time: 13:52:18 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
Hi, On 13/07/2009, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
However, while I can see the video graphics fine when I play the resulting file using 'totem', I get no sound. Does that mean that there is a separate file for the audio tracks? Or is it a quirk of 'totem'?
Probably. Or missing codecs. One such video identifies itself as: libavformat file format detected. [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0 [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [FLV1] 320x240 0bpp 25.000 fps 234.2 kbps (28.6 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffflv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Flash video) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 8000->88200) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== So sound is included.
(I don't have mplayer installed).
I can't imagine any (desktop) box with no mplayer installed ;) I even had it installed on Windows XP! Srdjan
Ted, Copy the URL for the YouTube video you're interested in, into keep-tube.com. This will allow you to easily download a .flv Flash video. Once you have it stored locally, you can watch it with your favourite media player. To create a DVD, you'll need to use a DVD authoring program and possibly something like ffmpeg to transcode the flash videos into MPEG-2 that can be written to DVD. HTH, Peter. 2009/7/13 Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk>:
Greetings all!
What I want to do: 1. Download a certain series of YouTube videos and store them locally in a suitable format (MP3?) such that each can be viewed from the local file.
2. Merge these into a single video DVD to make a "medley" which can be played straight through from the DVD.
Advice on how to do #1, and (if that is possible) how to proceed to #2, would be most welcome!
Platform: Debian Etch or Lenny (both available).
With thanks, Ted.
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(Ted Harding) wrote:
Greetings all!
What I want to do: 1. Download a certain series of YouTube videos and store them locally in a suitable format (MP3?) such that each can be viewed from the local file.
Downloadhelper addon for firefox will do this and convert them to whatever format DVDs need
2. Merge these into a single video DVD to make a "medley" DeVeDe will do this
Not done this for ages but I assume it will still work.
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