Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Lior Okman wrote about Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command: Even easier, if you're using the flash nonfree plugin, is to just copy the relevant FLV file from your /tmp directory after the plugin finishes downloading it. Or, you can play that file

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Lior Okman
Even easier, if you're using the flash nonfree plugin, is to just copy the relevant FLV file from your /tmp directory after the plugin finishes downloading it. Lior Shlomo Solomon wrote: The subject says it all. This may not be news, but I found it today and it may be useful to

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:59:20PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: This may not be news, but I found it today and it may be useful to others. All you need is Firefox and ffmpeg, no addons, extensions or plugins. You watch the video in Firefox (to create the input file in the Firefox cache)

Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
The subject says it all. This may not be news, but I found it today and it may be useful to others. All you need is Firefox and ffmpeg, no addons, extensions or plugins. You watch the video in Firefox (to create the input file in the Firefox cache) and then run: ffmpeg -i $(find ~/.mozilla

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Shlomo! On Thursday 29 November 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: The subject says it all. This may not be news, but I found it today and it may be useful to others. All you need is Firefox and ffmpeg, no addons, extensions or plugins. You watch the video in Firefox (to create the input file

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Actually, I didn't expect so many replies to my tip. Fistly, let me just repeat that it's not really mine. I just happened to find it on the net and thought it might be useful. However, I will comment on the three answers. All three are, of course, correct. As usual, there are several ways to

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/11/2007, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject says it all. This may not be news, but I found it today and it may be useful to others. All you need is Firefox and ffmpeg, no addons, extensions or plugins. Thanks for the tip. A while ago I looked for a way to download

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Thursday 29 November 2007 20:37, Amos Shapira wrote: Thanks for the tip. A while ago I looked for a way to download Google Videos and non of the plug-ins or stand-alone clients I found worked. There is also the added benefit of not downloading the video more than the one you usually do when

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:41:27PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: True, but you have to find the file which is buried somewhere in the cache - not difficult, but an extra task. And then, you still have to do the conversion to AVI. I'm not sure why you would bother. Mplayer, VLC and XINE all