Tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube

[Paul Smith]

On 2/3/07, Alexandru Ciobanu <alex at tvtransilvania.ro> wrote:
> > Is there some tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube?
> >
> For a single file you can use this sh script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> bu="http://youtube.com/get_video.php?";
> read -p "URL to YouTube video? " ur;
> read -p "Name of file to be saved? " nv
> wget ${ur} -O /var/tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /var/tmp/y1 | cut
> -d? -f2 |
> cut -d\" -f1`;
> wget "${uf}" -O /var/tmp/y.flv
> ffmpeg -i /var/tmp/y.flv -r 24 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 ${nv}.mpg;
> rm /var/tmp/y.flv;
> rm /var/tmp/y1;
> exit
>
> You need ffmpeg, of course. For multiple files you can loop this or
> something...

Thanks to all. The command

ffmpeg -i get_video.flv -r 24 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 out.avi

works fine.

Paul