Re: How to download online videos?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 08/26/08 12:13, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:45:51PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded
> > normally. The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to
> > download from a web site.  I managed to download it with MS-Windows
> > RealPlayer, from the Windows partition I have on my hard disk.
> >
> > I installed RealPlayer also on Debian, but it does not seem to work.
> >
> > I'd be glad if anybody suggests a particular tool that's known to
> > really work.
>
> clive works with both google and youtube videos. By default it converts
> flv to mp4.
>
> youtube-dl works only with youtube and leaves in flv format.
>
> Both have many options to control what happens to the video on your
> machine. Both are standard debian packages.

Clive is just about the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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