<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
> it would also be nice to know how to view youtube and suchlike in<br>
> more favorable players such as vlc or mplayer but that's a separate<br>
> question.<br>
<br>
</div>After the youtube video has completely buffered, copy the<br>
/tmp/Flashblahblah file to something like ~/file.swf, and convert it to<br>
an avi:<br>
<br>
$ mencoder file.swf -o file.avi -oac mp3lame -lavcopts<br>
acodec=mp3:abitrate=128 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1600<br>
<br>
$ vlc file.avi<br>
</blockquote></div><br>or just<br>$ mplayer /tmp/Flashblahblah<br><br>thanks!<br>