Youtube

Jannich Brendle on February 28th, 2010

Do you know that you can extract sound from a flash video file in ubuntu/debian using just one command? You can. First, you must download the video file from YouTube (described here). Then, you must install mplayer: sudo apt-get install mplayer. Then, it’s simply a matter of playing the video file with mplayer, while instructing [...]

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Jannich Brendle on February 17th, 2010

Okay, this is a very short blogpost that will show you how to download videos from YouTube, using a command line tool found on debian and ubuntu. The program I’m talking about is youtube-dl and to install it, you should open a terminal window and type in the following: sudo apt-get install youtube-dl When youtube-dl [...]

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