[mdlug] Downloading video (and other) streams

[Wojtak, Greg]

Er, I meant iSquint, not iSight.


On 2/8/07 9:19 AM, "Wojtak, Greg" <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:

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> 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 
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