On 2012-12-19, Dale wrote: > Bruce Hill wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote: [...] >>> Here is two links if you want to try my weird way of doing this: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Innx3puNI >>> >>> I use downloadhelper to grab those then play them locally. Both of >>> those are available in 1080p tho. Should warm up something. ;-) >>> >>> Dale >> Rather than downloadhelper and a web browser, try: >> >> mingdao@workstation ~/test $ youtube-dl >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI >> [youtube] Setting language >> [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video webpage >> [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video info webpage >> [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Extracting video information >> [download] Destination: XITHbsUUlYI.mp4 >> [download] 30.5% of 107.04M at 1.43M/s ETA 00:52 > > Some videos are available in different resolutions. Some have as many > as 6 or 8 different ones. With downloadhelper, you can pick which one > you want. I'm not sure if youtube-dl does or not. Also, I download > videos from lots of sites. I don't actually use youtube a lot.
youtube-dl supports all the available formats, it just defaults to the best quality one of the available for the chosen video. The -f parameter takes as an argument the format number, see the list from Wikipedia, http://enwp.org/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs youtube-dl is also not youtube-specific. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
