[plug] .flv codec

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 18:08 +0800, Kev wrote:
> What I'm after specifically is just a codec so that I can still use my 
> favoured video player (Kaffeine) to play .flv files which I'm already 
> able to capture from Youtube etc.
> 

simple, just get win32codec-all (called something like that) from
mplayer site or use your package manager of choice for getting it. I am
watching .flv on opensuse right now. 

BTW: I've been looking at this issue somewhat recently for making use of
the useful teaching demo movies available online, so I found a cli tool
to download/save the streams to disc for later viewing. One I find very
simple is "yougrabber". You just get the url of the youtube video and
enter "yg http://somefile/ in a terminal. I was also struggling with
streams that don't give a url but I wanted to keep them for later use
nevertheless. For this I finally found that a firefox browser plugin
called "downloadhelper" is the best of the several I tried. HTH.

Gavin    

> Richard Meyer wrote:
> > Thanks for that, I'd been wondering as well.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 12:24 +0800, Michael Baker wrote:
> >   
> >> Mplayer/ffmpeg?
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Kev" <kdownes at bbnet.com.au>
> >> To: "PLUG" <plug at plug.org.au>
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:16 PM
> >> Subject: [plug] .flv codec
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >>> G'day all,
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know of the existence of a FOSS .flv codec (for Linux of
> >>> course), and if so can you point me in the right direction please?
> >>> Google hasn't thrown much at me that is helpful - to me in my ignorance.
> >>>  Better still, if there's one out there in deb form I'd be almost
> >>> eternally grateful.
> >>>
> >>> Tia
> >>> Kev
> >>>
> >>> -
> >>>       
> >
> >   
> 
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