new update:<div><div>Are you a video lover or a music lover? Are there video files that you want only the sound of for your mp3 player?</div><div>Here is how to do that:</div><div>-If you are not running Linux you will need to install virtualbox onto your machine allocating 1 gb of memory to the Linux virtual machine. </div>

<div>-Download <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php">http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php</a></div><div>-Install it into your virtualmachine</div><div>-Start Linux mint annd after it starts press &quot;&lt;alt&gt;&lt;cntrl&gt;-T&quot;.</div>

<div>This opens what is called a &quot;Shell&quot; and in it type</div><div><br></div><div>youtube-dl -o &lt;filename&gt;.flv --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 &quot;youtube url&quot; (with quotes) &lt;return&gt;</div><div>

<br></div><div>The &#39;o&#39; option names the file.</div><div>The &quot;--extract-audio&quot; option does what it says.</div><div>The &quot;--audio-format=...&quot; can be best, aac, mp3</div><div>If you just want to download the entire video leave out the &quot;--extract-audio&quot; and &quot;--audio-format...&quot; options.</div>

<div>For more information type &quot;man youtube-dl&quot;.</div><div><br></div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div>Are you a video lover or a music lover? Are there video files that you want only the sound of for your mp3 player?</div><div>Here is how to do that:</div><div><br></div><div>youtube-dl -o &lt;filename&gt;.flv --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 &quot;youtube url&quot; (with quotes)</div>


<div><br></div><div>The &#39;o&#39; option names the file.</div><div>The &quot;--extract-audio&quot; option does what it says.</div><div>The &quot;--audio-format=...&quot; can be best, aac, mp3</div><div>If you just want to download the entire video leave out the &quot;--extract-audio&quot; and &quot;--audio-format...&quot; options.</div>


<div>For more information see the man page for youtube-dl.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Okay PLUG,how do you download it as an mp4 or what other video files can I download it as? I think you would do  &quot;-o &lt;filename&gt;.&lt;filetype&gt;&quot; but the man page doesn&#39;t say anything.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Hmmmm...... You know I think we should perhaps do a tutorial on installing linux into a virtual box so that widows users can avail themselves of these linux how-to&#39;s.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have a how-to for installing a virtualbox for Linux or do I need to write one up?</div>


<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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