Re: [LAU] Saving youtube audio and video - Linux-audio-user

5 Jan 2008

Adam Sampson:
...
  thomas fisher &lt;studio1(a)commspeed.net&gt; writes:

  Tommi promising looking application, but it
appears to be not open
 source and a limited trial time period teaser. 
 It's really not very hard to save videos from YouTube, and no
 proprietary software is required -- you just need to build the right
 URL, and there are various scripts to do that:

  http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
  http://offog.org/darcs/misccode/youtubeget

 (I wrote the second, but I wouldn't have bothered had I known the
 first existed...)

 The resulting files can be played with VLC or MPlayer. 
Here's my script to reliably stream youtube videos:
(it depends on yotube-dl)

#!/bin/sh
rm -f /tmp/ai

echo $1 >/tmp/link
xterm -e youtube-dl `cat /tmp/link` -o /tmp/ai &

while [ ! -s /tmp/ai ] ; do
   echo "File not available yet, sleeping 2 seconds"
   sleep 2;
done

echo "Caching 10 seconds before starting to play"
sleep 3;
echo 7
sleep 3;
echo 4
sleep 3;
echo 1
sleep 1;
echo 0
echo
echo "In case mplayer stops abruptly, run:"
echo "mplayer -delay 0.3 /tmp/ai"
echo "...to manually restart the player."

xterm -e mplayer -delay 0.3 /tmp/ai