oh the hilarity…
Writing about web page http://www.paganini.net/index.cgi/linux/capturing_flv.html
In an attempt to discover how to capture videos from YouTube and other online sources I naturally googled “capture youtube”. The third popular link looked promising: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command, it pledged to teach me how to “capture Youtube and Google videos to your computer, saving them as AVI files encoded in the MPEG4 format, using only one command”. Until this:
All you need is a Linux workstation running any fairly recent Linux distro, and FFMpeg.
Really? All I need is a Linux workstation? As if everyone has one of those lying about like a bar of soap. About three years ago I was running Ubuntu and was pretty happy with it (albeit the graphics never impressed me much). Now I’m moving on to make new friendship with Apple (whose recent launch of its new OS notoriously caused massive queues outside the London Apple store on Regent street). But Linux will always remain a wild field of imagination that I will only dare to conquer when I’ve learnt enough about programming and such.
The search for a way of capturing online videos continues…
Lu Yang
27 Oct 2007 17:41
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Michael
Um:
http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=save_youtube_videos_to_your_hard_drive;action=display;category=Play
28 Oct 2007, 00:21
Lu Yang
Thanks! There’s actually quite a few solutions, there just isn’t a recognised single-best solution.
28 Oct 2007, 00:40
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