Ceci n'est pas une pipe

An important update to my post yesterday: instead of using the version of `youtube-dl` that's in Debian repository, the Board strongly download the latest version which is located at this address:

http://www.arrakis.es/ rggi3/youtube-dl ~ /

This version is resolves some problems with the new formats selected by YouTube to identify the video. To use the new version is simply download it on your workstation (this is a simple text file) and run it as shown below:

# python youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=wruhbPe-FOA

Here's an example of what can be achieved by interacting `youtube-dl` and `` ffmpeg:

Click here for the AVI and brand without the YouTube video "Tony Brindisi"

This is the same video I posted a few days ago, but this time the file was downloaded in local and converted to AVI. Important that the downloaded version does not appear over the logo of YouTube.

For those who want to download a copy of a YouTube video, perhaps to change it to your liking, there is a python script packaged with the name `youtube-dl is available in the default repository of Debian GNU / Linux. To install it on your workstation is sufficient comandini the usual magic:

# apt-get install youtube-dl

Once installed the package to download videos from YouTube just run the command:

# youtube-dl [video_url]

For example:

# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHjT5-XM9o

What we get is a file format Flash Video (FLV), without the logo of YouTube, which can be viewed with MPlayer. If you want to convert the file to Flash Video (FLV) to xvid (AVI) you can always use the mythical, `essential` ffmpeg:

# ffmpeg -i video.flv -vcodec xvid -acodec mp3 video.avi