capture youtube

[amin]

guys,
I understand that this is a general question not only for mints, but for all linux in general, but I think it is still related to the multimedia/codecs topics.
I understand that youtube is flash .flv files. In windows there are several programs to capture video from youtube.com. How do we capture the video stream in Linux? Is there any utility/steps/tricks to do it?

Thanks,
Amin

[Sorensei]

Hi, for that I'm using a Firefox extension called VideoDownloader, it enables you to download the .flv, which you can then read with VLC.
I'm still looking for a .swf reader, though.

Also, I stumbled upon a site which does the job for you, just paste the URL in it. Google for "Dailysuck"...

Hoping that was helpful!

[nick]

Hi
http://www.paganini.net/index.cgi/linux ... g_flv.html

and if you want to save to VCD
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 1dc25771a5

Nick

[clem]

mintMag talks about that:

http://www.linuxmint.com/mintMag/mintMag-001.pdf

Clem

[scorp123]

Here is a shell script that can convert YouTube videos to DIVX (*.avi) files:
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11165&#11165

And just in the next posting there clem presents an even easier way:
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11167#11167