Odd tmp/Flashxxxxx files

[Goh Lip]

Jonas Norlander wrote:

>>>>
>>> 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.


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

> Thats not really true either. MP4 is a multimedia container based on
> Apple’s QuickTime container format and can contain almost any kind of
> data but most common is video, audio and subtitles. See wikipedia for
> more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp4


Yes, what I am saying is that downloaded files from youtube by this method

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html

is already in mp4 format. To make it to mp3 format so I can hear it in 
audio player or burn to audio cd, I just have to rename it to .mp3 and 
it's done. I suppose that video and other info 'bits' are not discarded 
by this simple method, but other than that, I wonder if there is 
anything 'not right' about this. Thanks again.

Regards,
Goh Lip