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!!!!!

9 comments:

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Anonymous 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

sex shop woman said...

Thanks so much for this post, pretty worthwhile material.

damod86 said...

Thanks so much, extremely useful...

Unknown said...

I had an experiment of determining the easiest and fastest youtube to mp3 online sites, and I was able to find 4 sites that lets me convert in less than 1 minute:))

Anonymous said...

Just follow this guide to one step to download YouTube to AVI directly or convert already download YouTube FLV, MP4, WebM to AVI at http://www.allavsoft.com/how-to/convert-youtube-to-avi.html

Unknown said...

I almost like this YouTube converter for convert any songs or others.

Devian Hong said...

I downloaded Youtube videos easily with Tubemate application. It's free. Tubemate is published by well-known software company Devian Studio, so you can download Tubemate safely at DevianStudio.net homepage.