Adam Sampson: > thomas fisher <studio1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Tommi promising looking application, but it appears to be not open >> source and a limited trial time period teaser. > > It's really not very hard to save videos from YouTube, and no > proprietary software is required -- you just need to build the right > URL, and there are various scripts to do that: > > http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ > http://offog.org/darcs/misccode/youtubeget > > (I wrote the second, but I wouldn't have bothered had I known the > first existed...) > > The resulting files can be played with VLC or MPlayer. Here's my script to reliably stream youtube videos: (it depends on yotube-dl) #!/bin/sh rm -f /tmp/ai echo $1 >/tmp/link xterm -e youtube-dl `cat /tmp/link` -o /tmp/ai & while [ ! -s /tmp/ai ] ; do echo "File not available yet, sleeping 2 seconds" sleep 2; done echo "Caching 10 seconds before starting to play" sleep 3; echo 7 sleep 3; echo 4 sleep 3; echo 1 sleep 1; echo 0 echo echo "In case mplayer stops abruptly, run:" echo "mplayer -delay 0.3 /tmp/ai" echo "...to manually restart the player." xterm -e mplayer -delay 0.3 /tmp/ai _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
