See the "Background" (child page) for an explanation of how video is implemented by Macromedia/Adobe's (Shockwave-)Flash stack/platform of technologies.
MeEcoder is part of the mplayer package and software project.Ī tutorial on how to extract the audio and video into separate files can be found. See also: How to reduce the size of every video in a directory and How to rip DVDs with mencoder. There is a command-line version of lame (the LAME encoder project), as well. See, in particular: jfreak53's posting to the thread.) ( from: ffmpeg -i audio.aac -acodec libmp3lame audio.mp3 How to convert media files using FFmpeg is an article / guide on this very website (wiki).įfmpeg -i audio.aac -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 160 audio.mp3 aac) AAC Advanced Audio Codec for iPods) using FFmpeg).
mp3 for listening on a portable audio device (or Windows Media Audio (. It is possible to convert the audio of a video that you downloaded (or any audio file, for that matter) to. There are tools for (possibly) sniffing/detecting and possibly also (Successfully) downloading/capturing/extracting footage that is transmitted (broadcast/served) using such Adobe technologies. If none of those work, the video may not be transmitted over the HTTP protocol but instead may be transmitted over another protocol such as RTMP (see #RTMP or HDS #Adobe HDS / DASH technology, which requires the Adobe Flash plugin to be operating within your web browser. Download (This extension was mentioned above already.)
Install any of the following recommended web browser extensions: To download videos from YouTube, you probably need Firefox (not Chrome) (for this purpose). If you don't like the ads on the website,Ī web browser extension (not a plugin) can be installed within the web browser. The example above is in the traditional (most-common (still?)) format for YouTube video posting URL/URIs? There are others that include a playlist or have "embed"Īlso, is capable of downloading videos from many other websites, such as: Facebook, Vimeo, DailyMotion, MetaCafe (and others see: ) - as well as SoundCloud audio.
(Select the text of the URL that is displayed by/within the address bar of your web browser (near the top), and copy (right-click, Ctrl + C) and then paste ( Ctrl + V) (into ?. Simply add " / to the left of the YouTube URL (that displays in the Address Bar of your web browser), and press the enter key on your keyboard:ī.T.W., That particular video (example) is: "The Silva Centering Exercise Meditation - Silva Method"Īnother format for the YouTube URL of that same video (posting) is:Ĭopy the URL of the YouTube posting webpage. If you want to download a copy of a YouTube video,
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