I usually use the default format (highest?), unless the file size is way too large.
Here is a comparison of the format options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube#Quality_and_codecs Most videos I've downloaded only have one or two formats available, so I have not looked into it too much. -Mark C. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Joe S <joes...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Thanks for the program. I was able to download the link you gave. > I am not familiar with video formats. Which formats are good to > save to from YouTube that I can save as? > > On Thursday 08 March 2012 11:02:54 am Mark Carlson wrote: >> For youtube, I use youtube-dl, which you can get from the >> package manager on Ubuntu (or just download the script.) This >> way, I can download the videos directly on my file server at >> home, instead of having to use Firefox to download the file >> and then manually copy it over. >> >> On the command line: >> >> youtube-dl -t http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ejt5vXTek >> >> or just: >> >> youtube-dl -t m8ejt5vXTek >> >> >> You can use this script to download single videos or entire >> youtube playlists. I use the -t option so the video title is >> in the filename. Normally, I also use --no-mtime so that when >> I sort the videos by modification date, they are in the order >> that I downloaded them, instead of the order they were >> uploaded to Youtube. >> >> -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
