Need Help Looking for a Program

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I'm looking for a program that would allow me to download videos or mp3s from the internet to my own media player. It would also help if the downloaded videos were able to be converted to mp3s, because I'm mainly looking for a way to get leaked music on my media player and iPod.

[v2freak]

I'm not totally sure what you're asking. Try a file sharing/torrent program? A lot of them have many mp3s and videos. If you need to convert them, that's a different story.

[NASpurs]

I'm guessing you want to rip out the audio of an embedded youtube/flash video and put it into your IPod?

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I'm guessing you want to rip out the audio of an embedded youtube/flash video and put it into your IPod?

Yes, yes.
Have anything for me?

[baseline bum]

ffmpeg is the best way to extract sound from flv video (like youtube & google) into mp3 format.

For Windows Users:

Get ffmpeg as part of KLite codec pack
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...codec_pack.htm

Downlad & install the KLite codec pack.

For example, say I want to extract the mp3 from this classic, located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEl1NYkcu8

1. Extract the video from youtube
Put kiss in front of youtube in the url, and go to it. This allows you to download any video from youtube.

http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=vnEl1NYkcu8

2. Press the Download button to download the flv file (the saved file will be called "get_video" if downloaded using firefox)

3. Rename the file to a.flv

4. Go to Search Files & Folders, and search for ffmpeg.exe
For my system, ffmpeg.exe is in G:\apps\megui\tools\ffmpeg\

5. Drag a.flv into the directory found in step 4
I.e., on my system, into G:\apps\megui\tools\ffmpeg\

6. Open up a command prompt, and go to the directory a.flv was dropped into in step 5.
i.e, run cmd.exe
in my case, do these commands to get into the dir

G:
cd G:\apps\megui\tools\ffmpeg\

7. Finally, extract the audio from a.flv into a.mp3
In this case, I want to sample at 44.1 kHz, and have a bitrate of 192 Kb/s
Type:

ffmpeg -i a.flv -ar 44100 -ab 192 a.mp3

It should take 20 seconds to 2 minutes or so to complete.

Now I have the audio from the youtube video ripped to a.mp3.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Thanks a lot, baseline bum!

[baseline bum]

ffmpeg is pretty badass. It's originally a UNIX program, so you can use it to convert videos on Mac or Linux/*BSD also.

[NASpurs]

I'm a geek so I would do it like baseline bum said. It's fun BUT

Just use this site http://vixy.net/

Put the url of the youtube video on there, then point your mouse towards the area that says "Converts to" and click on MP3 (audio only). The site tends to have a server overload so if that doesn't work, just do it like baseline did.

*edit* Here's another similar site: http://www.convertdirect.com/

[baseline bum]

I'm a geek so I would do it like baseline bum said. It's fun BUT

Just use this site http://vixy.net/

Put the url of the youtube video on there, then point your mouse towards the area that says "Converts to" and click on MP3 (audio only). The site tends to have a server overload so if that doesn't work, just do it like baseline did.

*edit* Here's another similar site: http://www.convertdirect.com/

If you wanted to do it the real geek way it, it would involve:

1. Install linux
2. Check out ffmpeg src tree from SVN
3. cd to src tree
4. run aclocal
5. ./configure --help | less (to see what options to enable, codecs to use)
6. ./configure (+ whatever options / codecs found in step 5)
7. make && make install
...

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I'm a geek so I would do it like baseline bum said. It's fun BUT

Just use this site http://vixy.net/

Put the url of the youtube video on there, then point your mouse towards the area that says "Converts to" and click on MP3 (audio only). The site tends to have a server overload so if that doesn't work, just do it like baseline did.

*edit* Here's another similar site: http://www.convertdirect.com/

Thanks, NASpurs.

[NASpurs]

If you wanted to do it the real geek way it, it would involve:

1. Install linux
2. Check out ffmpeg src tree from SVN
3. cd to src tree
4. run aclocal
5. ./configure --help | less (to see what options to enable, codecs to use)
6. ./configure (+ whatever options / codecs found in step 5)
7. make && make install
...

I tried to get into Linux and I can't. I have that installed on my PS3.

Thanks, NASpurs.

No problem.

[Kyle Smith]

I have a mac and use a program called "TubeTV"

It's kind of funny that people pay for music videos instead of snagging them from youtube