On 01/07/2011 01:05 PM, gregwm wrote: > it would also be nice to know how to view youtube and suchlike in > more favorable players such as vlc or mplayer but that's a separate > question. After the youtube video has completely buffered, copy the /tmp/Flashblahblah file to something like ~/file.swf, and convert it to an avi: $ mencoder file.swf -o file.avi -oac mp3lame -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=128 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1600 $ vlc file.avi