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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

05-18-2010

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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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image::exiftool::quicktime

Image::ExifTool::QuickTime(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Image::ExifTool::QuickTime(3)

NAME

       Image::ExifTool::QuickTime - Read QuickTime and MP4 meta information

SYNOPSIS

       This module is used by Image::ExifTool

DESCRIPTION

       This module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool to extract information from QuickTime and MP4 video, and M4A audio files.

AUTHOR

       Copyright 2003-2010, Phil Harvey (phil at owl.phy.queensu.ca)

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

REFERENCES

       <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/>
       http://search.cpan.org/dist/MP4-Info-1.04/ <http://search.cpan.org/dist/MP4-Info-1.04/>
       http://www.geocities.com/xhelmboyx/quicktime/formats/mp4-layout.txt <http://www.geocities.com/xhelmboyx/quicktime/formats/mp4-layout.txt>
       <http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Apple_QuickTime>
       http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/mpeg-4files.html <http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/mpeg-4files.html>
       <http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=QuickTime_container>
       <http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/wiki/iTunesMetadata>
       <http://www.canieti.com.mx/assets/files/1011/IEC_100_1384_DC.pdf>

SEE ALSO

       "QuickTime Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames, Image::ExifTool(3pm)

perl v5.12.1							    2010-03-09					     Image::ExifTool::QuickTime(3)