Tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube

[oleksandr korneta]

on 02/03/2007 01:39 PM Paul Smith wrote:
> On 2/3/07, Alexandru Ciobanu <alex at tvtransilvania.ro> wrote:
>>> Is there some tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube?
>>>
>> For a single file you can use this sh script:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> bu="http://youtube.com/get_video.php?";
>> read -p "URL to YouTube video? " ur;
>> read -p "Name of file to be saved? " nv
>> wget ${ur} -O /var/tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /var/tmp/y1 | cut
>> -d? -f2 |
>> cut -d\" -f1`;
>> wget "${uf}" -O /var/tmp/y.flv
>> ffmpeg -i /var/tmp/y.flv -r 24 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 ${nv}.mpg;
>> rm /var/tmp/y.flv;
>> rm /var/tmp/y1;
>> exit
>>
>> You need ffmpeg, of course. For multiple files you can loop this or
>> something...
> 
> Thanks to all. The command
> 
> ffmpeg -i get_video.flv -r 24 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 out.avi
> 
> works fine.

I remember using something similar, but the resulting video looks much 
crappier than the original .flv

I found

ffmpeg -i input.flv -ar 48000 -ac 2 output.mpg

giving much better result, probably because there is no rescaling...

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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