Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Converting Youtube flv files to MP3

OK, this one is a quickie. Just thought about sharing this. How many times you liked the background soundtrack being played in a youtube video. I bet you also felt like saving the video or bookmarking it only because you liked the soundtrack (who cares about the video). Yeah in today's small world its possible that while watching a video created by a Brazilian hacker you actually liked their song. I remember while watching a Sanath Jayasuria video I liked a Srilankan song so much that I actually searched for it. Alas, I could never understand the local lyrics , and so the search was tougher. oops deviating too much from the actual topic. Short and simple, if you want to extract the soundtrack from an flv file, you can use a tool called Super. You can use it for extracting the soundtrack from the video and saving it as an MP3 file that can be later played on your ipod.

And if you are still looking something for downloading a youtube video, then get DownloadHelper addon for mozilla. In short DownloadHelper helps you download any video on a web page for which you dont see an explicit link. Or as its best written ijn their description "The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites."

Here is a pic of Super in action, just start Super, drag your flv file on it, and you will find the mp3 in the output folder of install location of Super.(Typically Program Files/erightsoft)




Links below:
Super:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

DownLoad Helper:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

1 comments:

  1. I use http://www.flv2mp3.com/ . Youtube was blocked in my office, still I was able to listen to audio of the youtube links in friends status msg. :)

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