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Operating Systems Linux download with youtube-dl the HQ MP4 (not FLV) Post 302422519 by slashdotweenie on Tuesday 18th of May 2010 04:03:23 PM
Old 05-18-2010
download with youtube-dl the HQ MP4 (not FLV)

Hi

Howto download with youtube-dl the HQ MP4? Per default it always downloads FLV and in manual there is no option described for MP4.

Code:
$ aptitude show youtube-dl
Package: youtube-dl
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2010.04.04-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 119k
Depends: python (>= 2.4)
Suggests: rtmpdump
Description: download videos from youtube
 youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com
 and other sites that don't provide direct links to the videos served. 
 
 youtube-dl allows the user, among other things, to choose a specific video
 quality to download (if available) or let the program automatically determine
 the best quality video to grab. It supports downloading entire playlists and
 all videos from a given user. 
 
 Currently supported sites are video.google.com, youtube, photobucket, and
 metacafe.
Homepage: http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/

 

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NICOVIDEO-DL(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   NICOVIDEO-DL(1)

NAME
nicovideo-dl -- download a video file from www.nicovideo.jp SYNOPSIS
nicovideo-dl [options] video_url DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the nicovideo-dl command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -h --help print this help text and exit -u USERNAME --username=USERNAME account username (e-mail address) -p PASSWORD --password=PASSWORD account password -o FILE --output=FILE output video file name -q --quiet activates quiet mode -s --simulate do not download video -t --title use title in file name -l --literal use literal title in file name -n --netrc use .netrc authentication data -g --get-url print final video URL only -2 --title-too used with -g, print title too -c --get-comment download comment -x --raw-comment save comment in raw xml --comment-output=FILE output comment file name -v --version print program version and exit SEE ALSO
youtube-dl (1). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by paulliu grandpaul@gmail.com for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the same terms as the license of the original software. NICOVIDEO-DL(1)
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