[LAU] Saving youtube audio and video

Rob lau at kudla.org
Tue Dec 11 22:59:27 EST 2007


On Tuesday 11 December 2007 22:22, lanas wrote:
>   Is it possible to see a youtube video (and audio) on disk so
> that, for instance, it can be played on the TV using MythTV ?

Yes, Youtube videos are just .flv files served to their player app via 
normal HTTP.  There are many Firefox add-ons and Greasemonkey scripts 
that provide the download link for each video you view.

I use a pretty simple Greasemonkey script that's just called "Download 
Video" and adds a yellow bar with a link to download the video at the 
top of the page, but if you don't have Greasemonkey or want something 
with more options, just visit

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1 

and search for youtube.

As far as MythTV goes, I think you have to convert the .flv files to 
MPEG in order to get it to play them on your TV.  mencoder can do 
that for you, but I haven't the faintest idea what output settings 
would be appropriate for playback on MythTV.

Rob



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