[mdlug] Downloading video (and other) streams

[Wojtak, Greg]

On 2/7/07 3:26 PM, "Michael Rudas (computer)" <MPR_Linux at Ameritech.net>
wrote:

> Drew wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for a way to download streams,
>> such as are gotten on YouTube, to a Zaurus.
> 
> Firefox has a plugin that can save out a YouTube stream to a .FLV
> file.   Democracy Player can do this, too, with multiple formats
> (including BitTorrents).  Once saved, there are transcoding sites and
> utilities that can change the resulting file(s) to any desired format.
> 
> -- Mikey
> 
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I'll throw a second in there for the Firefox Extension.  It is called Video
Downloader.  According to the description, it allows you to "Download videos
from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video
site!  And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3, flash, quicktime,
etc)."  It works great.  I am on a Mac, so I use iSight to convert the
resultant .flv to .mp4, but I would imaging there are plenty of open source
media converters around.

Greg