Re: Help with u tube video streaming
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:39:47 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote:
> 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...
Also, I don't think that 19 months ago, YouTube offered the alternative
link to "watch in high quality" where such a version exists.
By appending "&fmt=18" to the URL of a YouTube movie, it can be made to
open initially in this higher quality mode and perhaps this is what
clive is doing.
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