Hi Kath, On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 05:02:03 +0100, kath g wrote: > Can we stream and save audio from YouTube using ffmpeg. The audio is about 10 > hrs long. I use manjaro with ffmpeg.
Is it really a stream or a static video? Static videos - and often even audio only - can be downloaded with the tool youtube-dl: http://yt-dl.org/ With its "-F" option, you can figure out the formats (some are audio-only). With "-f <format>" or "-f bestaudio", you can tell youtube-dl to grab you that audio. Or you can query the URL by adding "-g", and pass the given URL to ffmpeg. ffmpeg can also be built with libquvi support, where ffmpeg would directly understand a YouTube URL. I don't know whether that works anymore though. (If you don't build ffmpeg youself, you can figure out libquvi support by running: $ ffmpeg -formats | grep quvi and checking for this line: D libquvi libquvi demuxer ) Moritz _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
