Recently i wanted to convert a YouTube video to a mp3 file.(I'm using Ubuntu 9.04)
There were few options, but here is the process that worked for me.
first I installed the ffmpeg converter, as usual by,
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Then i downloaded the YouTube video to my home folder. Lets call it myVideo.flv (when you are watching YouTube video the flv file gets downloaded in to /tmp directory but i prefer DownloadHelper). Although DownloadHelper has a option of converting the video to mp3 format, it didn't work for me.
then convert the video by,
$ ffmpeg -i ~/myVideo -acodec copy convertedFile.mp3
Now listen to your new mp3 file using your favorite mp3 player.
cheers......
(make sure that you are not violating any copyright issues when converting media)
There were few options, but here is the process that worked for me.
first I installed the ffmpeg converter, as usual by,
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Then i downloaded the YouTube video to my home folder. Lets call it myVideo.flv (when you are watching YouTube video the flv file gets downloaded in to /tmp directory but i prefer DownloadHelper). Although DownloadHelper has a option of converting the video to mp3 format, it didn't work for me.
then convert the video by,
$ ffmpeg -i ~/myVideo -acodec copy convertedFile.mp3
Now listen to your new mp3 file using your favorite mp3 player.
cheers......
(make sure that you are not violating any copyright issues when converting media)
