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youtube-dl and playing with ffmpeg
youtube-dl and playing with ffmpeg
Posted Mar 23, 2007 14:55 UTC (Fri) by ber (subscriber, #2142)Parent article: Linux and flash
Recently I wanted to watch a video from youtube for the first time and I have a ppc with GNU/Linux.
On Debian I found youtube-dl and could download and watch the video in question with mplayer. I do not know for how many videos this will actually work. The website of youtube-dl says:
As YouTube.com videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be flv. In Linux and other unices, video players using a recent version of ffmpeg can play them. That includes MPlayer, VLC, etc. Those two work under Windows and other platforms, but you could also get a specific FLV player of your taste.
This seems to suggest that we already have all the tools available to watch .flv as Free Software.
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youtube-dl and playing with ffmpeg
Posted Mar 26, 2007 1:37 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
That is true, but playing them in the browser is different from downloading them. (I usually prefer downloading!)
An aside: A recent roblimo article points out that flash8/9 however support VP6 which is not open and not yet implemented in ffmpeg. So there is the danger that youtube could start using this alternate format. Certainly some other video hosting sites already do. This is a bit unrelated to the swfdec vs ffmpeg discussion though, since neither can decode vp6, and if one gains the ability probably both will.
youtube-dl and playing with ffmpeg
Posted Mar 29, 2007 12:57 UTC (Thu) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link]
Two questions about the FLOSS clients: can either of them handle MLB Gameday (see mlb.com once baseball season starts)? And, can they handle the videos on NBC.com where my current system (using the Macromedia/Adobe client) cannot flip from the advertisement to the content?
youtube-dl and playing with ffmpeg
Posted Mar 29, 2007 18:57 UTC (Thu) by leadfoot (subscriber, #39493) [Link]
FFmpeg definitely does play VP6, and probably every variation in the VP6 family.Check the changelog on the website for more details.