Re: [orca-list] accessible youtube client

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:45:47AM EST, Steve Holmes wrote:
> There's also a neat tool called youtube-dl which downloads the content
> to be played and then you just play it with the player of your
> choice.  I've only used it a couple times but worked for me at the
> console great.  It doesn't put an extension on the downloaded file so
> I'm not sure what exactly format it is but it seems to be mp3 for what
> I've guessed and that gues worked for me with mplayer.

If you are using a recent version of youtube-dl, it will fetc the best quality video available for the given 
video URL. The bigger the file, the more high quality it is. There are command-line arguments you can use to 
choose what quality video you want. Youtube videos either have AAC or MP3 audio compression, and VP6 or H264 
video compression.

Luke