On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:39:47 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) wrote:
> On 01/12/09 02:03, Howard Eisenberger wrote: >> On 2009-01-11, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: >> >>> On 01/10/09 19:27, Celejar wrote: >>>> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:49:18 -0600 >>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> clive is good for grabbing Flash videos and converting them to .mp4. >>>> I'm not sure that there's generally any need to convert them; mplayer is >>>> perfectly happy with files with .flv extensions. >>> True. But IIRC, the mp4 files are smaller. >> >> It is my understanding that clive does not convert .flv to .mp4, >> but downloads the higher resolution .mp4 directly from Youtube >> if that format exists. "clive -L" will download the lower res >> .flv. > > That must be new, because I thought it took it's instructions from it's > rc file. But mine is 19 months old, and clive has been upgraded and > rewritten since then... Also, I don't think that 19 months ago, YouTube offered the alternative link to "watch in high quality" where such a version exists. By appending "&fmt=18" to the URL of a YouTube movie, it can be made to open initially in this higher quality mode and perhaps this is what clive is doing. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org