Monday, August 4, 2008

Download youtube videos and convert them to AVI

Download youtube videos and convert them to .avi you just give:

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ffmpeg


To Download YouTube Video give:

youtube-dl -o example.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaAWFoWr2c"


and to convert to avi:

ffmpeg -i example.flv example.avi



(of course change the name of the video as you please and the youtube link to the video you want to download).

Enjoy!!!!!

5 comments:

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tLG said...

there is a basic way to download youtube & many other site's flv.

open firefox, go to addons, type downloadhelper and install video downloadhelper. you will see 3 balls on the top, when in youtube, click the balls that is playing and download the flv !

Anonymous said...

just googled this, and is by far the most useful guide on this subjet! For anyone else doing the same thing just put a -p after the youtube-dl part to get it in the highest quality availible

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damod86 said...

Thanks so much, extremely useful...