downloading video from http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=...

[Vince Hoffman]

Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, February 13, 2008 a las 03:43:35PM +0000, Vince Hoffman escribió:
> 
>> Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there any command line tool in FreeBSD for downloading a video from a
>>> URL like http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7540047147367608928
>>> in the way youtube-dl, for example, does? Thx in advance
>>>
>>> 	matthias
>>
>> Umm youtube-dl is a command line tool for doing this (and its in ports
>> www/youtube_dl) theres also www/metacafe_dl for metacafe.
>>
>> Did you mean something different?
> 
> $ youtube-dl 'http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7540047147367608928'
> Error: URL does not seem to be a youtube video URL. If it is, report a bug.
> $
> 
> i.e. youtube-dl is for YouTube (and works for me), but not for Google
> 

Doh sorry, managed to read the url as youtube somehow, thought it was an
odd question, more coffee needed obviously.

Vince

> thx anyway
> 
> 	matthias
>