steve wrote:
On 10/07/2009 02:10 AM, Rony wrote:
Hello,
In Firefox there is a plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 called downloadhelper http://www.downloadhelper.net/
...and if you had actually taken the effort to read the replies to your query...
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20090817/068372.htm...
...you'd have ^discovered^ this tool back then !
(*sigh*, sometimes I wonder, why do i even bother) cheers,
- steve
Oops! I missed that. At that time all I wanted was to convert the videos into mp3 audio and I was stuck there. In the Debian Etch distro that I was using, there were some dependency issues with vlc player that prevented me from installing it. Playing flash videos was not possible due to older software in Etch. For some time I used vdownloader in doze. Finally I took the decision to say bye to Debian and installed Kubuntu 9.04 a few days ago. That opened the gates to latest players including vlc player. VLC could now play flv files and it even had a convert option. However the output sound had terrible glitches and had to be abandoned. Searching addons in firefox revealed many utilities that downloaded the videos in flv, mp4 format but none would convert. Finally google threw up the site below and after trying other options like Konquerar menu etc, finally there was this section on firefox and thats where the utility was linked.
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/youtube_and_gnu_linux_download_a...