[FFmpeg-user] Capturing audio with x11grab

[Philip Rhoades]

Moritz,


On 2015-11-11 00:28, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 00:08:25 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> > Have you tried downloading the actual video file with youtube-dl?
>> > http://yt-dl.org/
> 
>> The video is not on YT it is on the abc.net.au site . .
> 
> That's a common misunderstanding. youtube-dl supports about a
> quazillion sites. It's a quite generic tool to save you from parsing
> through HTML, JSON, JavaScript, and so on - if it happens to work, or
> if someone has put their knowledge into an extractor. ABC Australia
> refuses to serve their videos to me (outside of Australia), but there's
> an example ABC link in the program's source itself. Here, this is what
> happens (sorry, on Windows, my Unix machine is off):
> 
> c:\Users\mbarsnick\Downloads>youtube-dl.exe
> http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4164797.htm
> [generic] s4164797: Requesting header
> WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
> [generic] s4164797: Downloading webpage
> [generic] s4164797: Extracting information
> [download] Destination: Game of Thrones with dice - Dungeons and
> Dragons fantasy role-playing game gets new life -
> 19_01_2015-730m_DandD_1901_512k.mp4
> [download] 100% of 23.48MiB in 00:05


Hmmm . . interesting . .


> That was not iview though - it may or may not work for iview. Probably
> not:
> https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6148
> (python-iview has been taken down, BTW.)


I eventually found this:

   http://delx.net.au/hg/webdl/file/b9cb241b8ffc/README.md

- which works really well!


>> I uninstalled it because it annoys me for other reasons . . I suppose 
>> I
>> could restore it temporarily . .
> 
> For pure alsa, there are some suggestions here (especially comment #5):
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=167830
> 
> Or here, starting from about comment #4:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147852


Thanks for that - I will check that stuff out anyway - I like ALSA and 
ffmpeg!

Regards,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

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