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Old 25th December 2011
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Real Name: Anthony J. Bentley
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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker View Post
IMHO using youtube_dl is still the best solution. And since UNIX doesn't mandatory lock *everything*, you can just start playing with mplayer/vlc/... after a few seconds without downloading the whole file first (Doesn't work on Windows).
Youtube-dl is great, but recently I’ve found myself using cclive instead:
  • It supports more sites than youtube-dl (and unlike get_flash_videos, actually works)
  • It accepts youtube-dl’s “-f xx” flag (I find -f 18 provides a reasonable balance of quality versus download time on my slow DSL connection)
  • It also accepts urls on stdin, which is very useful when combined with grake and umph‐prompt (see “Additional Tools” at the website).
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