Davids Jewish Traveler and Hacker

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Davids Jewish Traveler and Hacker

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Flash videos converted for Zaurus aka YouTube video rips
Youtube google vid and gobs of other sites

On your desktop machine

1-first get the Firefox plugin VideoDownloader
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

2-Visit YouTube and find a video to rip

3-the plugin will dump out a file which you need change the name to add a .flv extension

4-then get ffmpeg which is in the extended ubuntu sources

5-run it like this in console:

ffmpeg -i video.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 test.mpg

man ffmpeg will let you know about all the options

6-now just FTP the new mpg file over to your Z and media player can play it

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