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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2025 8:30 am    Post subject: Convert flash to mpeg Reply with quote
I've got some flash files that have been pulled for YouTube which I need to convert to mpeg for people who don't have access to the internet. I'm wondering if there is a way to do this with out me having to fire up a virtual copy of windows?



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2025 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
you may want to see what Crouse has been up to away from here Wink



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2025 9:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's not working for me on sound. I'm wondering if there's a way to convert to using tovid rather than ffmpeg for the encoding?



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2025 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Trying this now, and will post back results when done:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# by Crouse
# Program name ytr = YouTube.com Ripper
baseurl="http://youtube.com/get_video.html?"
mkdir -p ~/YouTube ;
mkdir -p ~/YouTube/tmp ;
cd ~/YouTube/tmp ;
read -p "What is the youtube.com url you want to rip ? " urltorip ;
read -p "What would you like to name the video (no spaces in the name) ? " nameofvideo ;
wget ${urltorip} -O urlsource.txt ;
grep "watch_fullscreen" urlsource.txt > url.info;
videourl=`sed "s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;" url.info`;
fullurl=${baseurl}${videourl};
echo ${fullurl};
rm *;
wget ${fullurl};
mv * *.flv;
echo "Now converting the file to mpeg ... this can take awhile, please be patient" ;
tovid *.flv ${nameofvideo}_encoded -dvd -ntsc -aspect 320x240 -keepfiles;
mv *.mpg ../;
exit

It's my guess that it will fail on encoding. The mv command. Also not sure if tovid can convert .flv.

Edit: tovid will convert. I had forgotten a couple basic commands for it. I've edited to:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# by Crouse
# Program name ytr = YouTube.com Ripper
baseurl="http://youtube.com/get_video.html?"
mkdir -p ~/YouTube ;
mkdir -p ~/YouTube/tmp ;
cd ~/YouTube/tmp ;
read -p "What is the youtube.com url you want to rip ? " urltorip ;
read -p "What would you like to name the video (no spaces in the name) ? " nameofvideo ;
wget ${urltorip} -O urlsource.txt ;
grep "watch_fullscreen" urlsource.txt > url.info;
videourl=`sed "s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;" url.info`;
fullurl=${baseurl}${videourl};
echo ${fullurl};
rm *;
wget ${fullurl};
mv * *.flv;
echo "Now converting the file to mpeg ... this can take awhile, please be patient" ;
tovid -in *.flv -out ${nameofvideo} -half-dvd -ntsc;
mv *.mpg ../;
rm -Rf ~/YouTube/tmp;
exit

It works. Very Happy Takes forever to encode, but oh well I guess.



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2025 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just tried your modified script DedannaRocks and it worked like a charm. I did have to install a couple dependencies but it was easy enough to do.



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2025 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm getting the vids a bit out of syc - video delay, so next one I'm going to try a more modified one. Added an option to tovid. I think the length of the vids is giving tovid a chance to start lagging. We'll see how it goes:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# by Crouse
# Program name ytr = YouTube.com Ripper
baseurl="http://youtube.com/get_video.html?"
mkdir -p ~/YouTube ;
mkdir -p ~/YouTube/tmp ;
cd ~/YouTube/tmp ;
read -p "What is the youtube.com url you want to rip ? " urltorip ;
read -p "What would you like to name the video (no spaces in the name) ? " nameofvideo ;
wget ${urltorip} -O urlsource.txt ;
grep "watch_fullscreen" urlsource.txt > url.info;
videourl=`sed "s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;" url.info`;
fullurl=${baseurl}${videourl};
echo ${fullurl};
rm *;
wget ${fullurl};
mv * *.flv;
echo "Now converting the file to mpeg ... this can take awhile, please be patient" ;
tovid -in *.flv -out ${nameofvideo} -ffmpeg -half-dvd -ntsc;
mv *.mpg ../;
rm -Rf ~/YouTube/tmp;
exit



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2025 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
media-convert.com

convert anything to anything, without any 3rd party app.
OS independent.

try it. Nothing to install.



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2025 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
DocZayus wrote:
media-convert.com

convert anything to anything, without any 3rd party app.
OS independent.

try it. Nothing to install.


Wow, awesome!! Bookmarked.



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2025 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
DocZayus wrote:
media-convert.com

convert anything to anything, without any 3rd party app.
OS independent.

try it. Nothing to install.


Thanks Doc, it looks like it will be a very useful site. Smile



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2025 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Definitely a bookmarker. Smile

Well, I thought.
Code:
File transfer error

YouTube direct download service is no more available. Sorry for this inconvenience !


Thanks though. Smile



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2025 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can still get a Firefox plugin that wil save you the /flv file that can then be uploaded/converted.



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2025 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Don't use FF, sorry. lol.

It's ok, I gotta method now. Very Happy



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2025 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DocZayus wrote:
You can still get a Firefox plugin that wil save you the /flv file that can then be uploaded/converted.
Plugin name, please? Thx!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2025 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
videodownloader

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2025 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh.



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