Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:41:04 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT. Message-ID: <20071210014104.37683488@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20071210000940.GA3696@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20071208210331.GA1241@thought.org> <475B0A21.5000708@math.arizona.edu> <200712091445.23000.kneel.pardoe@virgin.net> <475C2014.6010805@math.arizona.edu> <475C80DE.40505@onetel.com> <20071210000940.GA3696@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:09:40 +0100 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave > > youtube-dl: No match. > > > > eg > > > > %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA > > youtube-dl: No match. > > You have to quote the argument to youtube-dl, otherwise the shell will > mess it up, because '?' is a special character for the shell. > > So use: youtube-dl 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA' An alternative is the "All-In-One Video Bookmarklet" which you can get here: http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html It's just a little bit of javascript that's small enough to live in a bookmark. It turns the current page into a list of download links. I find it a lot easier than youtube-dl.
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