Hello,
In Firefox there is a plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 called downloadhelper http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Just install this firefox plugin and ensure that you have the ffmpeg package installed through your distro's package manager. When you play the video in youtube you will an animated tool icon next to the address bar. It will allow you directly download and convert the video to your customised format, even mp3 for sound only. In the Tools -> DownloadHelper menu there is a 'preferences' section. Thats where you first set all your custom preferences and once you are set, simply click on the drop down list of the animated tool icon and select a download video format, it will open another submenu that has options like 'download', 'download and convert' etc. Thats it. It is a one click download and convert to your preferred folder.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
In Firefox there is a plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 called downloadhelper http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Just install this firefox plugin and ensure that you have the ffmpeg package installed through your distro's package manager. When you play the video in youtube you will an animated tool icon next to the address bar. It will allow you directly download and convert the video to your customised format, even mp3 for sound only. In the Tools -> DownloadHelper menu there is a 'preferences' section. Thats where you first set all your custom preferences and once you are set, simply click on the drop down list of the animated tool icon and select a download video format, it will open another submenu that has options like 'download', 'download and convert' etc. Thats it. It is a one click download and convert to your preferred folder.
Similar Post - http://techfandu.blogspot.com/2009/09/play-any-video-on-firefox.html
Btw : youtube flv files goes into /tmp directory. After watching all videos and before closing firefox, you can run following script to concert all flv to ogg
http://code.google.com/p/freedombucket/source/browse/trunk/ConvertAllFlashto...
narendra sisodiya wrote:
Btw : youtube flv files goes into /tmp directory. After watching all videos and before closing firefox, you can run following script to concert all flv to ogg
http://code.google.com/p/freedombucket/source/browse/trunk/ConvertAllFlashto...
I use mp3. I used to save the flash file to flv from /tmp but somehow ffmpeg would not work properly after youtube changed itself recently. Till then I was very comfortable with clive and ffmpeg. I had even edited clive's config file to automatically convert the youtube url into mp3 directly using 'clive url'.
On 10/07/2009 02:10 AM, Rony wrote:
Hello,
In Firefox there is a plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 called downloadhelper http://www.downloadhelper.net/
...and if you had actually taken the effort to read the replies to your query...
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20090817/068372.htm...
...you'd have ^discovered^ this tool back then !
(*sigh*, sometimes I wonder, why do i even bother) cheers, - steve
steve wrote:
On 10/07/2009 02:10 AM, Rony wrote:
Hello,
In Firefox there is a plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 called downloadhelper http://www.downloadhelper.net/
...and if you had actually taken the effort to read the replies to your query...
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20090817/068372.htm...
...you'd have ^discovered^ this tool back then !
(*sigh*, sometimes I wonder, why do i even bother) cheers,
- steve
Oops! I missed that. At that time all I wanted was to convert the videos into mp3 audio and I was stuck there. In the Debian Etch distro that I was using, there were some dependency issues with vlc player that prevented me from installing it. Playing flash videos was not possible due to older software in Etch. For some time I used vdownloader in doze. Finally I took the decision to say bye to Debian and installed Kubuntu 9.04 a few days ago. That opened the gates to latest players including vlc player. VLC could now play flv files and it even had a convert option. However the output sound had terrible glitches and had to be abandoned. Searching addons in firefox revealed many utilities that downloaded the videos in flv, mp4 format but none would convert. Finally google threw up the site below and after trying other options like Konquerar menu etc, finally there was this section on firefox and thats where the utility was linked.
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/youtube_and_gnu_linux_download_a...
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