On Wednesday 03 January 2007 23:34, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:55:29 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > There is a script using Perl::curl that will download a youtube video
> > as as mpeg that can be played with mplayer.  It was posted to one of
> > the gentoo lists recently, probably this one or gentoo-user.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg48504.html
>
> Although according to file, the downloaded files are flash, but mplayer
> plays them.

They are not flash, they are flash video. Which is a format that mplayer 
indeed knows how to play.

Paul

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