Re: Help with u tube video streaming
On 2009-01-11, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 01/10/09 19:27, Celejar wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:49:18 -0600
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@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.
Substantially more CPU is required to play .mp4 than .flv.
Howard E.
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