Thread: [Maemo 5] youtube-dl downloader
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2010-11-08 , 15:48
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Nothing special really, I packaged youtube-dl and it should be available in the repos soon.

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from
YouTube.com and other sites that don't provide direct links to the
videos served.

youtube-dl allows the user, among other things, to choose a specific
video quality to download (if available) or let the program
automatically determine the best quality video to grab. It supports
downloading entire playlists and all videos from a given user.

Currently supported sites are video.google.com, youtube, photobucket, dailymotion, and metacafe.
However, I'd like to point out PaulFertser's script, which streams videos from youtube and plays them with mplayer

/usr/bin/ytstream:
Code:
mplayer -cache 2048 "`youtube-dl -f 18 -g $1`"
chmod +x it, then ytstream youtubelinkhere
 

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