Skip to content


Youtube to MPEG or Ogg video conversion

Here is the two line method to convert a youtube video to oggvorbis video.

Locate clive and ffmpeg2theora in your package and install

$clive http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=6JeZ5oeAEyU (replace this with the youtube address you want)
It will create a flv file.

Convert to mpeg video file

$ffmpeg -i AmericaAmerica.flv AmericaAmerica.mpg

Convert to ogg video file

$ffmpeg2theora AmericaAmerica.mpg (replace it with the name of the flv file the previous command created)

Done. You can see the .ogg file in the directory from where you executed the above commands

Posted in Misc.


One Response

Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.

  1. Anonymous says

    ffmpeg is the swiss army knife for video editing. Though ‘Transcode’ has much more features; my favourite remains to be MEncoder.

    - Rajeesh.



Some HTML is OK

or, reply to this post via trackback.

Powered by WP Hashcash