Re: downloading a stream

On 12/04/2014 01:09 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 03.12.2014 um 23:15 schrieb jd1008: >> >> On 12/03/2014 02:52 PM, Peter Reed wrote: >>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:39:07 -0700 jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>> >>>> fc20. using vlc, or wget or smplayer, how do I download a >>>> stream which the FF plugin downloadhelper says is made of >>>> many files, each one of which has the extension .f4f >>>> >>>> When I download the .f4f files, they are not playable by any >>>> media player. >>>> >>>> >>> .f4f is a broken or incomplete .flv file and that would be why >>> it is not playable. Peter >> Alright, so how do I download the stream? I see on the web some >> ideas, among them livestreamer, a package which is not provided >> by fedora nor by rpmfusion. >> > Try youtube-dl, a command line tool available from Fedora, and easy > to use, e.g.: youtube-dl > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo > > Should also work with flash videos. > > I did try it before I posted my question. It quits and says report this problem to yt-dl ....etc