Re: Youtube - newbie guidance
On Fri 22 Dec 2017 at 15:04:06 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I use User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/51.0 SeaMonkey/2.48 on a Debian Stretch machine with the MATE
> desktop.
>
> I've never used youtube before.
> I received a link to a youtube video
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_bPWyrPFc> which played fine.
A mini howto is coming up.
> I did not have time to watch the whole video.
> How can I download and save it?
What does Debian have relating to youtube?
apt search youtube | less
What can Debian do about downloading a youtube video on Stretch?
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_bPWyrPFc
[youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
[youtube] 82_bPWyrPFc: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[download] Destination: Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.f137.mp4
[download] 44.0% of 562.32MiB at 674.29KiB/s ETA 07:58
and so on until 100% .........
[download] 100% of 38.35MiB in 00:56
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv"
Deleting original file Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.f137.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
brian@desktop:~$ ls -l Noodle\ Pi\ -\ Linux\ Powered\ Modular\ PDA\ _\ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 629306844 Dec 20 05:10 Noodle Pi - Linux Powered Modular PDA _ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv
> Its content is something I will wish to review and my data cap is
> low enough that I can not just repeatedly access it If I didn't get
> some point the creator was making.
How can I view the downloaded video?
brian@desktop:~$ vlc Noodle\ Pi\ -\ Linux\ Powered\ Modular\ PDA\ _\ Tablet-82_bPWyrPFc.mkv
> Is there some way to pause a video if I'm interrupted?
No problem with vlc.
> I did some searches of Synaptic. There were some hopeful hits. Their
> homepages didn't tell me if they could do what I want.
>
> I did some web searches but again came away confused.
> I suspect I'm using wrong search terms &/or there is some underlying
> assumption that I'm missing.
'apt search' is the man!
--
Brian.
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