Re: Help with u tube video streaming

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

On 01/12/09 02:03, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> 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.

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...

$ cat .cliverc
[clive]
encoder = /usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i %%%%i %%%%o
always_accept = yes
encode_format = mpeg

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