I think there are sites that can download flv's [eg from youtube] and then you can use VLC to watch them....... On 9/29/06, Yuandan Zhang <yuandan.zhang(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

on 09/29/2006 09:16 AM Yuandan Zhang wrote: here is the script I found somewhere on the web (and tweaked a bit) which downloads the video from youtube.com and converts it to .mpg --SCRIPT------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash bu="http://youtube.com/get_video.php?"; mkdir -p ~/_download/youTube; cd ~/_download/youTube; read -p "YouTube url? " ur; read -p "Name? " nv wget ${ur} -O /tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /tmp/y1 | cut -d? -f2 | cut -d\" -f1`; wget "${uf}" -O /tmp/y.flv ffmpeg -i /tmp/y.flv -r 24 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 ${nv}.mpg; rm /tmp/y.flv; rm /tmp/y1; exit --SCRIPT------------------------------------------------------------- as you can see it uses ffmpeg for .flv-->.mpg conversion. hope it helps -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta /The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./