Odd tmp/Flashxxxxx files

[Nigel Ridley]

Goh Lip wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> Goh Lip wrote:
>>
>>> I find this best, drag the 'button' to your browser bookmark toolbar.
>>>
>>> http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html
>>>
> 
>> About extracting MP3 files from downloaded youtube (.flv) files.
>> This is how I do it:
>>
>> First you need to install ffmpeg
>> then:
>> To Convert .flv to .mp3 using ffmpeg:
>> ffmpeg -i name_of_video_clip.flv -vn name_of_file.mp3
>>
>> Obviously you need to substitute the 'name_of_video_clip.flv' for the actual file name.
>>
>> If you have a bunch of downloaded files, you can:
>> 'cd path_to_.flv_files'
>> then:
>> for i in *.flv; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vn "${i%flv}mp3"; done
>>
>> then:
>> mv *mp3 ~/Music/Mp3s  [or which_ever_path_to_dir] (to move the newly created Mp3 files to a 
>> separate folder).
>>
> 
> The downloaded files are converted to mp4. Just renaming them to .mp3 
> will make change files to mp3 files. Plays fine. Wonder if there's 
> anything wrong with this approach? I am not really familiar with 
> music/video file formats. Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Goh Lip
> 
> 

MP4 is a video format whereas MP3 is an audio format.

Blessings,

Nigel