### txt2man -s 1 -t WEBVI -v "download utility for media sharing websites" NAME webvi - download video and audio from media sharing websites SYNOPSIS webvi [options] DESCRIPTION webvi is a command line tool for downloading video and audio files from certain media sharing websites, such as YouTube or Google Video. OPTIONS -h, --help show this help message and exit -t DIR, --templatepath=DIR read video site templates from DIR -v, --verbose debug output --vfat generate Windows compatible filenames USAGE The program communicates with webvid daemon, which must be running in the background. The content of video sharing websites is presented as series of menus. The menus consists of two kinds of links. Navigation links, which can be identified by [brackets], are used to navigate the site. Non-bracketed links are media streams that can be downloaded. Following commands are recognized: help Show help select x Select a link whose index is x download x Download a media stream whose index is x stream x Play a media stream whose index is x back Go backward in history forward Go forward in history display Redisplay the current menu menu Go back to the main menu quit Quit the program x is an index of a link in the current menu. Entering an index number x without any command is a shorthand for "select x". CONFIG FILE webvi will read the following config files: /etc/webvi.conf and ~/.webvi. The files are in INI format. The following options are recognized in [webvi] section: templatepath Path to video site templates streamplayers1 to streamplayer9 are alternative player commands to be used for streaming videos vfat Generate Windows compatible file names (values: true, false) It is possible to set lower and upper bounds for stream quality in [site-*] sections: download-min-quality Minimum accepted quality for downloading download-max-quality Maximum accepted quality for downloading stream-min-quality Minimum accepted quality for streaming stream-max-quality Maximum accepted quality for streaming Currently only Youtube module offers multiple versions of the streams. These are the available quality scores for Youtube (section [site-youtube]): 50 standard quality (320x240, i.e. what you get in the web browser) 60 480x360 MP4 65 480p WebM 70 720p MP4 75 720p WebM 80 1080p MP4 AUTHOR This manual page was written by Tobias Grimm and Antti Ajanki .