Multimedia | Ceci n'est pas une pipe

A major update to my post yesterday: instead of using the version of the `youtube-dl, which is located in the Debian repository, I highly recommend downloading the latest version found at this address:

http://www.arrakis.es/ rggi3/youtube-dl ~ /

This version fixes some problems with it new formats chosen by YouTube to identify the video. To use the new version simply download it on your workstation (it is a simple text file) and launch it as in the following:

# python youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=wruhbPe-FOA

Here is a practical example of what can be achieved by interacting `youtube-dl ffmpeg` and ``:

Click here for the AVI and YouTube video with no brand "Tony Brindisi"

This is the same video I posted some days ago, but this time the file was downloaded locally and converted to AVI. Important that the downloaded version does not appear as the YouTube logo.

For those who want to download a copy of a YouTube video, perhaps to change it to your liking, there is a python script packaged with the name `youtube-dl is available in the default repository of Debian GNU / Linux. To install it on your workstation is usually sufficient to rule while the magic

# apt-get install youtube-dl

Once installed the package to download videos from YouTube just issue the command:

# youtube-dl [video_url]

For example:

# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHjT5-XM9o

What will you get a file in Flash Video (FLV), without the YouTube logo, which can be viewed with MPlayer. If you really want to convert the files to Flash Video (FLV) files to xvid (AVI) you can always resort to the mythical `indispensable` ffmpeg:

# ffmpeg -i video.flv -vcodec xvid -acodec mp3 video.avi