My Linux skills have been limited to a basic install, and getting around in the system. I've recently decided to take the O.S. more seriously and become a full time user and more of a Linux hobbyist. This is a place for me to post notes, and other helpful information. The information here is centered around Fedora and KDE but I do post about other GNU/Linux distributions. You can find useful notes, book reviews, tutorials, videos, and whatever else I think will be useful for learning this O.S.
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Adjust Touchpad Delay with Synaptiks
Post removed. Upon reboot, synaptiks wreaked havoc on my system. If you're looking for a way to fix this, in your system tray, find synaptiks and disable it. You may have to right click on system tray to show hidden programs.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Video : Nixie Pixel Explains the Linux File System.
Just playing around on Youtube and came across this video. Nixie Pixel gives a quick tour and explanation of the Linux file system. Very informative, and explains a lot in under 6 minutes.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Inkscape Tutorial Making Flourishes Youtube.
Doing some web graphics the other day I came across this Youtube video on creating flourishes and squiggly designs using Inkscape. I've used Gimp for awhile now, but I just can't seem to get the hang of Inkscape. If you're not familiar with Inkscape it's a great program to create svg graphics in. I followed this video and was very happy with the results using Inkscape.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
CLI Youtube Downloader youtube-dl Linux
Every so often you come across a video on Youtube that you really want. Youtube downloaders come and go. Some work for a long time some work for a couple months. Youtube-dl is a simple CLI for Linux that works great for the time being, allows you to download in multiple formats, and is fairly simple to use. The man pages for the program are very easy to read and almost self explanatory.
With Fedora I simply opened up my terminal program, typed:
yum install youtube-dl
and yum did all the work for me. The CLI was installed and I read through the man pages.
man youtube-dl
For the sake of this tutorial I'll just go through the basics to get the program doing what it's supposed to do. For further info just read the man pages.
Go to youtube, find a video you want to download.
Now open up your terminal program , I use Konsole, and type:
youtube-dl -F youtube.com/video_url_here
Replace the last part of the command with the youtube page url that has your video.
This command will show you the different formats the video is available in. Here's an example of the output:
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] kb9dxfsPdQs: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] kb9dxfsPdQs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] kb9dxfsPdQs: Extracting video information
Available formats:
44 : webm [480x854]
35 : flv [480x854]
43 : webm [360x640]
34 : flv [360x640]
18 : mp4 [360x640]
5 : flv [240x400]
17 : mp4 [144x176]
Once you know the file format you want, simply type:
youtube-dl -f 18 youtube.com/video_url_here
and youtube-dl downloads the video in the file format of your choice. That's it, your done ! Notice -F capital letter gives you the file format, -f lower case with the number in my case 18 downloads the video in mp4 format. If you were to select -f 34 the file would be downloaded as an flv file.
That's the basics, the program offers a few other options, read through the man pages for more info. At the time of this writing the program works great, youtube downloaders tend to come and go. As youtube changes things, programs become outdated and stop working. For the time being this is my downloader of choice. Happy downloading !
With Fedora I simply opened up my terminal program, typed:
yum install youtube-dl
and yum did all the work for me. The CLI was installed and I read through the man pages.
man youtube-dl
For the sake of this tutorial I'll just go through the basics to get the program doing what it's supposed to do. For further info just read the man pages.
Go to youtube, find a video you want to download.
Now open up your terminal program , I use Konsole, and type:
youtube-dl -F youtube.com/video_url_here
Replace the last part of the command with the youtube page url that has your video.
This command will show you the different formats the video is available in. Here's an example of the output:
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] kb9dxfsPdQs: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] kb9dxfsPdQs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] kb9dxfsPdQs: Extracting video information
Available formats:
44 : webm [480x854]
35 : flv [480x854]
43 : webm [360x640]
34 : flv [360x640]
18 : mp4 [360x640]
5 : flv [240x400]
17 : mp4 [144x176]
Once you know the file format you want, simply type:
youtube-dl -f 18 youtube.com/video_url_here
and youtube-dl downloads the video in the file format of your choice. That's it, your done ! Notice -F capital letter gives you the file format, -f lower case with the number in my case 18 downloads the video in mp4 format. If you were to select -f 34 the file would be downloaded as an flv file.
That's the basics, the program offers a few other options, read through the man pages for more info. At the time of this writing the program works great, youtube downloaders tend to come and go. As youtube changes things, programs become outdated and stop working. For the time being this is my downloader of choice. Happy downloading !
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