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Clive is Command-line and fullscreen console program that extracts videos from YouTube, Google Video and other video sites. It supports embedded video extraction, and can be used with an external encoder (e.g. ffmpeg) to re-encode the extracted videos to different video formats (e.g. avi, mpeg, flv).

Features
- Multi-platform; POSIX (BSD/Linux/UNIX-like)
Youtube
GoogleVideo
Dailymotion
Guba
Metacafe
Sevenload
Myvideo
- Multi-URL (batch) support
- Compatible with UNIX pipes
- Configuration file support
- Integration with X clipboard (xclip)
- Chain with a 3rd party player software for playing
- Chain with ffmpeg for subsequent re-encoding
- Proxy support; option and http_proxy environment setting
Further more:
- High/low-quality support where applicable (e.g. Youtube)
- URL caching; re-fetch video page only if necessary
- Parse and extract videos from RSS/Atom feeds
- Scan and extract embedded videos (Youtube, GoogleVideo)
- Overridable output filename formatting
- Overridable video page title parsing
- Youtube log-in support with flagged-content override
- Automatic Metacafe family-filter override
- Dailymotion log-in support
- Gzip compressed video page data transfers
- Continue partially downloaded files*
*=excluding Youtube/FLV and GoogleVideo/FLV
Install clive in Debian
# aptitude install clive
This will complete the installation.
Clive Example
clive http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LToULvLhE&feature=dir
Usage: clive [options] URLs
For more option check here
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July 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
On debian etch aptitude claims it cannot find package clive. I have main contrib non-free repos.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:34 am
hi,
the link in “For more option check here” is not working …
this is the right one: http://home.gna.org/clive/clive.1.txt
cheers,
herold