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How to download Lucy Pinder on television from Youtube (and
other videos too)
Lucy Pinder Television
For complete information, visit the Lucy
Pinder Television website... news, shows, videos, youtube links, everything about
Lucy Pinder's television work is here!
This page originated as a rant page about the deficiencies
of youtube which also provided useful technical information, but it turned out that half the internet were looking up
Lucy Pinder videos on it. So it became a Lucy Pinder page which also talks about youtube...
Video collection: Lucy Pinder on Television Here is the definitive youtube channel of her
television work on Nuts TV (Freeview channel 42, Sky channel 207).
Lucy Pinder playlists:
Lucy Pinder Television Presenter - Nuts TV 20/03/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 20th March 2008.
Lucy Pinder Television Presenter - Nuts TV 13/03/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 13th March 2008.
(There is no playlist for 06/03/08 because unfortunately Lucy was ill on that date and could not present.)
Lucy Pinder Television Presenter - Nuts TV 28/02/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 28th February 2008.
Lucy Pinder Television Presenter - Nuts TV 21/02/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 21st February 2008.
Lucy Pinder - Television Presenter - Nuts TV 14/07/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 14th February 2008.
Lucy Pinder - Television Presenter - Nuts TV 07/02/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 7th February 2008.
Lucy Pinder - Television Presenter - Nuts TV 17/01/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 17th January 2008.
Lucy Pinder - Television Presenter - Nuts TV 16/01/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 16th January 2008.
Lucy Pinder - Television Presenter - Nuts TV 15/01/08 A
compilation of Lucy Pinder presenting Nuts TV on 15th January 2008.
Lucy Pinder - Overexposed Interested in
doing your own glamour shoot? Top tips for the aspiring photographer,
from the top glamour model in the business.
Lucy Pinder in "North Vs. South" - the
comedy game show that stirs the blood, only on Nuts TV.
Lucy Pinder's Book at Bedtime Lucy Pinder
reads excerpts from literature - and hilariously rude and silly comedy readings too.
"Book at Bedtime" sub-playlists:
Lucy Pinder - Comedy at Bedtime Spoof
readings on the theme of Mills and Boon - only much ruder, much sillier and infinitely more funny.
Lucy Pinder's Shakespeare - Readings from
the Bard.
Lucy Pinder's War of the Worlds - Four
readings from the earlier chapters of HG Wells's "War of the Worlds".
Lucy Pinder's War and Peace - Excerpts
from Tolstoy's "War and Peace".
Pinder and Pearson's Late Night Love-in - Lucy Pinder as the star presenter of a countdown of saucy music videos, over five nights on MTV/TMF.
Lucy Pinder in "Level Crossings:
Don't Run The Risk" I know they're a major pain
in the backside, although I can't be arsed to list all the technical reasons
why they're like that. The point is, pain in the backside or not, being an
idiot and getting squished is a much bigger pain all over...
Still, the Lucy Pinder
videos website is here, this page is about youtube itself...
Unfortunately youtube are not the most helpful or easy to use site in the world.
Not only do youtube make it needlessly difficult to download the
videos - an attitude I have no patience with, if you don't want people to download them don't flaming well
host them in the
first place - but they insist on obfuscating the business by using the unspeakably evil
flash format. And they ruin the quality of the videos, too -
it is absolutely cack. They purport to be 320x200 but they're so heavily compressed it looks
more like 80x50.
I don't want to view videos in the browser and I take great exception to any site that
tries to force me to do something in a particular way. And I particularly don't want to view
videos in a browser with a flash plugin installed. Flash is used for such a lot of
annoying web garbage that refusing to install a flash plugin is a requirement for avoiding continual
annoyances all the time I'm surfing the web. Another requirement is that the machine running
the browser should have no working sound system. Too many people embed infuriating sound
files on web pages. So the machine I browse with has no speakers attached and indeed no
sound card. This is much more reliable and certain than trying to disable a working sound setup.
When I want to view a video I download it using wget onto a separate machine that does have
working sound, and view it using mplayer. Most video sites make this easy, and a lot of them
even provide download links which make it trivial. It's youtube which is the most notorious
for messing me about.
And what kind of a bloody stupid name is "youtube", anyway?
I can present at least a partial solution to the problem, in the form of a method for
downloading the videos and converting them into a useful format. It's not as good as having a
proper download link in a decent format in the first place, but it's the best I can do...
To download a youtube video, you have to look through the source code of the web page and find the
line containing:
blahblahblah/watch_fullscreen?video_id=SomEGArbAge&l=CrAp&t=SOmemoREGarbaGEblahblahblah
You then copy that, delete the blahblahblah/watch_fullscreen on the
beginning, the blahblahblah on the end, and the &l=CrAp from the
middle. That leaves you with
?video_id=SomEGArbAge&t=SOmemoREGarbaGE
You then stick http://www.youtube.com/get_video on the front of that:
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=SomEGArbAge&t=SOmemoREGarbaGE
That is the URL which you pass to whatever HTTP client you're going to
use to download the file:
wget http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=SomEGArbAge&t=SOmemoREGarbaGE -O filename.flv
or cut and paste it into GetRight, or copy it and middle-click in the
rendering area with Firefox or Opera, or whatever you have to do with
Internet Exploder.
The resulting flash video (ack, spit) (.flv) file can probably be
played by opening it from a browser with a flash plugin. I refuse to
have a flash plugin installed and so I convert them to some more
useful format with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i filename.flv -sameq -acodec copy filename.avi
An alternative would be to use ffplay to play the video.
The following script automates the process (the downloading, not the
conversion, though there's nothing to stop you sticking an extra line
in...) If the script is named "youtubeget" then
it is invoked as
youtubeget YOUTUBEURL OPFILE
where YOUTUBEURL is the complete URL of the youtube page for the
video, and OPFILE is the output filename to save it to.
The user-agent string can be changed to masquerade as any recognised browser.
Your version
of wget needs to be capable of following the HTTP "see other" response
from youtube.
Versions which do not follow "see other" need to be patched with this patch
The patch is for wget 1.8.2,
which is a bit old, but it's so simple that most of the patch succeeds with later versions
and the amount of hand-tweaking needed to complete the process is minimal... does make me
wonder why the standard version of wget doesn't include this patch.
The script also needs to be modified to pass the
--follow-see-other option to wget.
More recent versions do this out of the box - this is true at
least of 1.10.2-2 in Debian etch - and do not need the
--follow-see-other option to work.
#!/bin/bash
And of course there's nothing to stop you modifying the script to
run ffmpeg on the downloaded file.
if ! [ $1 ]; then
echo No URL supplied
exit 1
fi
if ! [ $2 ]; then
echo No output filename supplied
exit 1
fi
TMP=`mktemp /tmp/youtubeget.$$.XXXXXX || exit 1`
wget "$1" --user-agent='Opera/8.54 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)' -O $TMP
SWFFILE=`sed -n -e '/watch_fullscreen/s/\(^.*watch_fullscreen?\)\([^"]*\)\(".*$\)/\2/p' < $TMP`
VIDEO_ID=`echo $SWFFILE | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(video_id=[^&]*\)\(.*\)/\2/'`
TRACK_ID=`echo $SWFFILE | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(t=[^&]*\)\(.*\)/\2/'`
sleep 5
wget 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?'$VIDEO_ID'&'$TRACK_ID \
--user-agent='Opera/8.54 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)' -O "$2"
rm -f $TMP
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