[MEncoder-users] knowhow: convert flash h264/aac video (e.g. from Youtube) to workable formats

[The Wanderer]

On 03/01/2011 11:46 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On 1 Mar 2011, at 12:42, Miroslav Rovis <m.rovis at inet.hr> wrote:
> 
>> FILE.flv is a file you find in a place like /tmp/ usually in
>> awkward name like FlashKsb97c, whatever, after you've watched a
>> video on Youtube or somewhere in your Firefox (I don't go online
>> with my Mickeysoft, no, so can't tell where you find it in
>> Windoze).
> 
> For YouTube and some others, the youtube-dl script is a much
> simpler/better solution.

Or cclive, which is available in recent Debian where youtube-dl isn't.
(I also prefer it for other reasons, although the fact that it doesn't
default to "best quality" the way youtube-dl now does is less than
ideal.)

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