Re: [clug-talk] Downloading YouTube video?

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Carlson
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: you

Re: [clug-talk] Downloading YouTube video?

2012-03-08 Thread Mel Walters
clive, ver 2.2.13-5+squeeze4 clive comes to mind. Seems to work well. The command line for downloading the best available video is: clive -f best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SomE1comBo9 You fill in the the v= that you would like. The above is not a real one On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 11:02 -0700,

[clug-talk] AGM still pending

2012-03-08 Thread Mel Walters
Kin was telling me time for the Annual General Meeting (or beyond). So to give the required 30 day notice I propose April the 11th, (as in a week after the monthly meeting on April 4th). The alternative could be to just do the following month first Wed date for AGM. Are there any preferences amon

Re: [clug-talk] Downloading YouTube video?

2012-03-08 Thread Joe S
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 > packa