From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 04:30:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D018516A421 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jimmiejaz@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B86213C469 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jimmiejaz@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so386189anc for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:30:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bS+lvixMwPr9QFwSGDHlVfetnt5Xqwf9RAdWy2J2Z5k=; b=XIW8j3VFFNt1kf7CwSm/DDi4d6AYMQ0y5z+CrLA2MuO6s3YWL9ctVWdnmJKE7gXOSNj0ExecxdDcMIf34PTUp3t8N8xioyKk3t2DSmZ/kwh7oKgn5K0NqeV/S8fojeybQQJBBYZaCrAO221Yu2SGG7j/dzN7RDrbAC8P9WKr9oc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GYKducmXb9Tt4ptexwWPNiKkSG/unDi7KisLnRmqJ9gwSWGiwagDXJ1RLnI3R+w1LZovBF0HTBO4giKOt3LMK+PTFS0IQ9StrA2qTVBRNivCKnoYdIz9HNvlbSw0+FU3C3ll6UWbXDr9744mUdBZ6cB0efPpfyMyUWDoYiUtVtI= Received: by 10.100.57.6 with SMTP id f6mr3182428ana.1197261013366; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:30:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from fortytwo.zapto.org ( [70.48.45.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h5sm3087895roe.2007.12.09.20.30.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:30:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <475CC0D6.6010409@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:30:14 -0500 From: Jimmie James User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4pre (X11/20071018) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Whitehouse Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT. youtube-dl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jimmiejaz@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:30:14 -0000 Chris said: >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. I'm sure someone else is going to jump in saying to qoute the URL, but and even easier way is to grab the string after watch?v= in your example : [23:29:22] jimmie@fortytwo <104> [0] ~>youtube-dl gpIM3nBR2ZA Retrieving video webpage... done. Extracting URL "t" parameter... done. Requesting video file... done.Video data found at http://chi-v274.chi.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=gpIM3nBR2ZA Retrieving video data: 7.8% ( 1.59M of 20.41M) at 159.43k/s ETA 02:00 It's a little be easier, IMHO. -- If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. --- --- --- Solving Today's Problems Tomorrow