Free flv videotag software for linux

FLV::Tag is a flash video file data structure.

This is a subclass of FLV::Base.

$self->parse($fileinst)

Takes a FLV::File instance and extracts an FLV tag from the file stream. This method then multiplexes that tag into one of the subtypes: video, audio or meta. This method throws exceptions if the stream is not a valid FLV v1.0 or v1.1 file.

At the end, this method stores the subtag instance, which can be retrieved with get_payload().

There is no return value.

$self->get_payload()

Returns the subtag instance found by parse(). This will be instance of FLV::VideoTag, FLV::AudioTag or FLV::MetaTag.

$pkg->serialize($tag, $filehandle)
$self->serialize($tag, $filehandle)

Serializes the specified video, audio or meta tag. If that representation is not complete, this throws an exception via croak(). Returns a boolean indicating whether writing to the file handle was successful.

Google Video Downloader is a Firefox extension that adds a button in the status bar. You can download the source .flv or .avi file directly in two clicks

If You:

- Would like to download files from other videohostings;
- Have DownThemAll od FlashGot;
- Would like to permanently choose preferred Google Video format.

Want to watch Youtube video, but you dont have Flash plugin? (ex: gnu/linux ppc os), so try this great script to watch STREAMING VIDEOS from Youtube! You dont need to download video on your disk, you can stream directly the FLV videos from Youtube!

MPlayer Youtube Video Streamer lets you watch YouTube videos even if you dont have the flash plugin.

Usage: myvs [options] video_url

Options:

-h, --help print this help text and exit
-v, --version print program version and exit
-u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME account username
-p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD account password
-o FILE, --output=FILE output video file name
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --stream do not download video, but stream directly by mplayer
-C, --cache set a cache of 300k, for slow connection
-c, --cycle cycle 20 times while youtube redirect to vo.llnwd.net (that streams .flv)
-t, --title use title in file name
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-O, --streamonly Force the script to stream only, if it doesnt find a valid stream server simply quit

Who to use it with Firefox:

Now I will explain you how to get it working with Firefox,

First we need a Firefox extension called: Lanchy,
this extension give us the ability to open directly from Firefox Youtube video on youtube webpage (not on all webpages that have a youtube video!

You ALWAYS need the youtube videos webpage! After you have installed Launchy (from firefoxs addon site), restart Firefox, now it will ask you to insert a Launchys button on your toolbar (DO IT! so open Youtube videos will be very simply), after that go on the preferences/option of this extension and uncheck the option: "search automatically programs".

Now copy the "launchy.xml" file that you found on the package and copy it on your directory:
".mozilla/firefox/YOUR_ID.default/chrome/" , after copied it, please dont forget to edit it with your myvs.py COMPLETE PATH, and add or delete oppurtune option to pass to the script.

Now restart again firefox an watch if it recognise the command (by pressing the G).

Go on youtube.com, open a video webpage, click on the G button-> Open in Mplayer Youtube Video Streamer.

WWW::Google::Video is a fetch the Google Video Information.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Google::Video;

$foo=new WWW::Google::Video;

$foo->fetch(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1808273720725631796);
# The Google Video Page URL, such as http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=blahblahblah

print $foo->{url},"n"; # Google Video FLV Original File URL !!
print $foo->{length},"n"; # Video Length Information
print $foo->{name},"n"; # Video Name Information

foreach(@{ $foo->{pic} }){ # By using Reference to an Array
print $_,"n"; # To show the preview pictures.
}

The WWW::Google::Video is a class implementing a interface for fetch the Google Video Information.

To use it, you should create WWW::Google::Video object and use its method fetch(), to fetch the information of Video.

It uses LWP::Simple for making request to Google.

FLV::ToMP3 can convert audio from a FLV file into an MP3 file.

SYNOPSIS

use FLV::ToMP3;
my $converter = FLV::ToMP3->new();
$converter->parse_flv($flv_filename);
$converter->save($mp3_filename);

See also flv2mp3.

Extracts audio data from an FLV file and constructs an MP3 file. See the flv2mp3 command-line program for a nice interface and a detailed list of caveats and limitations.

FlowPlayer project is a video player for Flash Video in FLV format. The UI is clean and simple.
The player is easy to configure and embed into your home page, site, or blog.
FlowPlayer.swf is a player that is ready to be used out-of-the box. FlowPlayer.html is an example of Web page that uses it. The name of the video file to be loaded by the player is specified in html page in the < object > tags flashvars attribute. This attribute is there in two places (both in < objec t> and < embed > tags) to maximize the number of supported Web browsers.
By default, the player loads the video file from the same location as it loads FlowPlayer.swf. The name of this variable is videoFile and the value should be the name of the video file with or without an extension.
There is also a way to specify a complete URL. This is done using the baseURL variable. When this mechanism is used the video files and FlowPlayer.swf may reside in different locations within the Web server or even in different servers.
autoPlay variable is used to specify whether playback should start immediately when the player has been loaded into the Web browser. Legal values for this parameter are true and false.
Please refer to FlowPlayer.html for descriptions of all HTML parameters used to control the player.
Enhancements:
- New FlowPlayer Skinning Kit to make skinning the player better than ever before.
- There is a new package in the downloads for this.
- Added all dependencies to the source distribution package and now its easier for new developers to start hacking.
- Fixes: VideoHeight does not have any effect in full screen mode any more, now resizes to fit the full area.
- Configured progress bar, buffering bar etc. colors were ignored and now work as espected.

clive is a command line program that extracts videos from YouTube and Google Video websites. The project supports embedded video extraction, and can be used with ffmpeg to re-encode the extracted videos to different video formats (avi, mpeg, flv).