flv video downloader issues
Hello. I've tried both youtube-dl and abby (front-end for cclive), and neither seem to work now (they both had worked previously). Any idea what's going on? Is there a way to download the flv videos from youtube? I use Debian Lenny (with some unstable, testing, and/or backport packages).
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Look on the debian forums in the howto section for oswaldkelso's post on imac/emac instralling.
Maybe it isn't the same architecture but he does give command lines that may help you. |
I searched it, but I couldn't find anything about downloading flv files (from youtube or elsewhere).
I checked the bug reports for cclive and youtube-dl, and they both say that there are issues with recent youtube videos. The cclive bug report seemed to suggest that clive worked (which I'll try, but given what I read on the clive bug report, I'm doubtful), so I'll try this. Also, in one of these reports, conkeror's scraper function was mentioned as working, so I'll try this too. |
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Thanks. However, tips on getting mplayer to start automatically after I use cclive (via abby) to download the flv file won't work if cclive doesn't download it in the first place.
I tried to get clive from the sid source, and it doesn't seem to exist. So, I'm now going to try conkeror. [later...] Well, conkeror is kind of interesting (I tried stable, because sid sources did not have it). But I could not find or figure out the scraper function that had been referred to in the youtube-dl bug report. Is anyone else having problems downloading the flv files from youtube? If you have been able to do this, please let me know what you're using. |
Strange. I was attempting a youtube-dl of a Tommy Douglas speech on healthcare, and it was frozen at the following:
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mark@debian:~/stuff/debs/youtube-dl$ youtube-dl C2oUInTUlAM Anyway, right after closing the xterm where I was attempting to submit the bug report, suddenly the lifeless corpse of youtube-dl showed a pulse (but, the download was so slow, that it eventually died): Code:
mark@debian:~/stuff/debs/youtube-dl$ youtube-dl C2oUInTUlAM |
I finally got the unstable clive installed (I gave up trying to port it to stable from source, and just installed the package from the sid repository). Tried it, but it also does not work. So, the only thing that comes close to working is youtube-dl. Again, if anyone else is capable of downloading the flv videos from youtube, do please share your secret.
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More Info on Cclive & Libquvi
A few questions for regular users of cclive.
Have any of you installed either cclive or libquvi on a remote Centos box? If not, is it possible to customize these 2 programs to work on a remote machine? The problem for Centos5+ users is that there is no binary files available for curl v7.18.0. The Centos users that have commented in other forums who upgraded to this version from an Ubuntu mirror have proven to be problematic with other aps on their machine. So basically, is there a 7.18.0 generic version out there that will do the job on Centos? I also would like to know from anyone with good experience with these aps if they actually work well. Are we still having problems with You Tube dl's? Do most of the media sites mesh well with these aps? Can you bulk download or can you only dl files one by one? How does Abby GUI mesh with cclive? I'm interested in any of your thoughts. Thanks. |
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