Tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube

[Manuel Arostegui]

On Mon, February 5, 2007 09:39, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 14:48 -0500, oleksandr korneta wrote:
>
>>
>> on 02/03/2007 01:39 PM Paul Smith wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I remember using something similar, but the resulting video looks much
>> crappier than the original .flv
>>
>> I found
>>
>>
>> ffmpeg -i input.flv -ar 48000 -ac 2 output.mpg
>
> Crap. I get this error which isn't found with google.
> ffmpeg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined
> symbol: NeAACDecOpen
>
>
> Anyone seen this one? Ric
>

Yep, you have to install ffmpeg-devel package

Manuel.