Monday, September 08, 2008

capture YouTube video

To capture a YouTube video, I used the following, using Ubuntu Linux:
-install the "video download helper" firefox add-on. You then just go to the video and click on the icon on the toolbar. This captures the video and creates a .flv flash file.
-use the linux command-line application ffmpeg to convert from flash to mpeg video
( ffmpeg -i old-file.flv new-file.mpg )
-use the linux application devede to convert from mpeg to iso format. (get devede from the synaptic package manager).
-click on the iso file to burn to dvd.
voila!!!

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