[NFBCS] Is it possible to download videos from YouTube?

[Michael McQuaid]

By the way, Audacity is a good free, open source audio file editor. It can
import and export mp3 files.

- Mick

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 2:45 PM Michael McQuaid <mickmcquaid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Youtube accepts uploads in many formats. If you want to guarantee that you
> get mp3 output, there are several steps to take.
>
> 1. Install ffmpeg or avconv. Either of these is necessary to convert any
> non-mp3 output to mp3 (or any of half a dozen other formats). If it is in
> your path, it will be used transparently by youtube-dl.
>
> 2. Give the command line option --extract-audio
>
> 3. Also give the command line option --audio-format mp3
>
> So the command might, for example, look like
>
> youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 http://youtu.be/qpwoeiruk
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 8:35 AM Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
>> What format does Youtube-dl put the file in, if you only want audio? MP3?
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFBCS [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Cannon
>> via
>> NFBCS
>> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2020 3:29 PM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> Cc: Aaron Cannon
>> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Is it possible to download videos from YouTube?
>>
>> Yes, youtube-dl is the way to go here. It's a commandline program, so
>> hopefully you are comfortable with that. There is an option to only
>> download the audio. You can then open the audio track in Goldwave, or
>> another audio editor of your choice, and chop out the bits you want.
>>
>> youtube-dl is a very popular program, so Google is your friend here.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On 11/25/20, Michael McQuaid via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> > Youtube-dl is a popular command line tool for downloading Youtube
>> videos.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure what constitutes an accessible video editor. I would
>> probably
>> > use Quicktime Player for a simple edit. If you know the exact times of
>> the
>> > segments to extract, ffmpeg is a reliable command line video editor that
>> is
>> > definitely accessible, although with a lot of arcane command line
>> options
>> > that take a while to master.
>> >
>> > - Mick
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:34 PM Jim Portillo via NFBCS <
>> nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Good afternoon,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Here's the deal.
>> >>
>> >> Someone posted a video on YouTube of him doing a kind of living room
>> >> concert. There are a few songs I'd like to get from that video without
>> >> having to watch the whole thing over and over, just to get those songs.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way to first download the entire video from YouTube and save
>> >> it
>> >> to my computer? Then, is there a way to maybe use a program like Total
>> >> Recorder or some other thing to edit what I have on my computer and get
>> >> those two or three particular things I want from it?
>> >>
>> >> I've done some google searching, but I'm leery about downloading just
>> any
>> >> freeware program without knowing about it or seeing if anyone else has
>> >> done
>> >> something similar.
>> >>
>> >> If I can convert that video to audio, that would be very cool as well,
>> >> but
>> >> not necessary.
>> >>
>> >> What do you guys think?
>> >>
>> >> Jim
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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