Odd tmp/Flashxxxxx files

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 00:31 +0800, 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

kino does a great job of importing flv files and exporting them into
various formats. Plus, you can edit out crap you don't want. You can
export just the audio only as well. It has a small learning curve. Ric




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