Youtube videos to M6

barrist

Anyone try converting youtube videos (which are downloaded via the firefox extension and then converted with a flv to avi program) to be played on the m6?

im mostly going to use the video feature of the m6 for music videos and im having trouble finding them on places other than youtube.

FirePower

memcoder can do it, You tube is 320x240 at 30fps and audio is 64kbit
you need to convert using 320x240 at 20fps or less with rotate=1 and keep audio at 64kbit.

Betriebsjosef

short question: how to download videos from youtube??

Austin

Do you use Mozilla Fire fox? Thats the most important thing you need.

Betriebsjosef

no i dont, but i downloaded it now... what i have to do then?

karlum

download this: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3006/
with this addon you can download all the youtube videos

Pascallo92

Download the memcoder here on meizume.com and use the settings firepower posted.

kech

hey im new here and ive been doing some searching
can anyone tell me what is a memcoder?? the codes ?? or a program or ??

i really want to put some youtube vids on my miniplayer

this player has been the greatest device!! ever!
thanks

marcelo1251

Memcoder, VirtualDub, MZ video converter and others are programs that convert your normal videos to a format and size that can be reproduced by your miniplayer

kech

oh icic

I am not very computer orianted so please dont get mad @ me for being a bit slow

ok so i downloaded the memcoder (MPlayer 1.0rc1 Windows GUI / MPlayer 1.0rc1 Windows) from the site

but only (MPlayer 1.0rc1 Windows) has mencoder
and when i try to open it, it automaticly closes itself shortly after

am i doing something wrong ?
*i also downloaded (Windows x86 20061022)*

I dont know what im doing..
would i be asking too much if i ask for step by step procedure from the top ?

FirePower

First you have to be able to download youtube video as an .FLV file using the Mozilla addon for firefox (Video Downloader or Download helper).

You may have to rename the download file from filename.htm to filename.flv
You should also download a flash video player to play the file to make sure its ok. http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/...player-updated

Once you have the file run winmenc or memcoder or what ever encoder you want to use.
(iriverter is one of the most simple encoders to use but has limited options it is good to learn to use this one and then learn to use more advance encoders later) http://iriverter.sourceforge.net/

You need to input the file by loading or drag and drop the filename.flv file into the encoder.
You then change the options:

Video Codec=divx or Xvid
Video Bitrate kbps=300 or less (set equal to original video rate)
Video Size=320x240
Video Frames fps=20 or less

(extra tab under video filers)
Video Filter:rotate=1

Audio Codec=mp3
Audio Bitrate kbps=64

Video bit rate should be about 300kbits or equal to the original bit rate shown under info or properties when playing with the flash video player. (no point wasting file size by encoding at 300kbits when the original file is only 100kbits, also youtube uses 64kbit for audio so dont go higher than this) you should set rotate=1 (rotate right) in video filter options if available.

You should also setup the output folder you want to save the new files to.
These should be all the setting you need to adjust ,you can now press encode to start encoding.

Once you have the finished file avi play it on your PC to make sure it works
(I use Divx player) it will be side ways if the rotate=1 was used.
If you look at the properties it should show what you entered above, if the setting are not the same you may have some wrong options set and will need to do it again.
If setting match above then you can copy the avi file to you miniplayer movie folder and watch it.

Never encode using higher bit rates than the original files video and audio bit rates.
you can not add information that doesnt exist. its ok to use lower rates as this creates smaller files for the miniplayer but also lower quality, but for a small screen may not be a problem. Youtube videos are usually low quality due to the high compression they use.
The same applies to any video format you want to encode (avi,mpg,mov,dvd,etc)

hope this helps ,any question just ask, I also knew nothing about encoding when I got the miniplayer, but using google to search for articles and reading the forums, and just playing with the encoding software, I soon worked out how to do it, dont be afraid to play with the encoder software ,the worst that happens is you end up with a file that wont play on miniplayer , just delete it and try again with different settings.

kech

hey thanks for your help
I check this thread like every hour hoping someone will help me

anyways to my question
whenever i drag a the .flv file onto mencoder it just pops up a little dos like window then quickly closes........ ??
am i doing something wrong ??

thanks again

FirePower

ok I understand the problem , memcoder and mplayer are command line driven windows/dos applications, look in the folder for another filename .exe that should be the windows front end to pass the commands/options to memcoder.
look for one of these iriverter, winmenc, badak, super etc are all windows front end programs that pass the information from all the options etc to memcoder to do the actual work of encoding, I suggest you download iriverter to get started.

here is a bat file you can use. just edit filename.flv to the one you want to use. this is what the windows front ends pass to memcoder.

C:\FLV\ is used for input flv files
C:\Meizu\ is used for output avi files

copy and paste below into Notepad and save as "encode.bat" where you have memcoder. then double click on "encode.bat to run it.

mencoder.exe "C:\FLV\filename.flv" -srate 44100 -vf-add scale=320:240,rotate=1 -ofps 20 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64:mode=0 -ovc lavc -ffourcc DIVX -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=300:vhq -o "C:\Meizu\filename.avi" 2> 2.txt

kech

hey thanks so much for your help!
I am able to get the videos working and in good quality!

you just help my miniplayer a even better toy to start out with !

FirePower

Glad to help share the info, nothing worse than not being able to use a new product to its full capabilities.

dgk

http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php for firefox

Lambo

or, just download mediacoder and it will do flv to avi conversions real easy :D

seantan

In my experience, mediacoder causes a/v sync problems when converting flv files.

Lambo

usually this is because flash does screw up a/v sometimes when playing video and stuff. but other than that if the flash version is fine then then converted file should be too

edit: if you have ever seen the numa numa video at the end of it it starts getting unsynchronized because of the flash shit

__________________

seantan

Well, I use Total Video Converter (not free) (.flv -> .mp4) and then MZ Video Converter (.mp4 -> avi) to convert Youtube videos. I don't get any a/v sync problems when using this method.