Programs: media archiving
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web
web archiving tools
youtube-dl download from youtube, several other sites khan-dl download from khan academy website archiving
If it is available for download, getting it packaged by the website is generally better, but you can use wget if you need it.
wget --wait=20 --limit-rate=20K -r -p -U Mozilla http://www.stupidsite.com/restricedplace.htmlstreaming video archiving
isolating the url
* go to website in chrome * options > More Tools > Developer Tools * Networking Tab * hit F5 to reload the page with the video * look for the items with the longest urls in the list * right click on it, and Copy > Copy Link Addressdownloading the url The issue with downloading is that you need to be able to reuse the website's cookies/ssl cert. You can obtain all of this automatically with curl (although I need to learn how) but alternatively you can just create a simple website with a link, open it from the same browser (in a new tab), and right-click to download.
<!-- HTML --> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> <HTML><BODY> <a href="https://big/log/website/url">RightClick to Save</a> </BODY></HTML>
DVD Archiving (video)
Unix
devede videoDVD/CD authoring tool (compatible with DVD players) brasero gui iso burning tool mkvtoolsnix split/merge mkv files from CLI or GUI. (even by chapter!) win32
dvd decrypter decrypt DVDs, saving decrypted copy Roxio vhs to DVD software to record VHS handbrake video encoder
Recording from USB device
ffmpeg ffmpeg can be used to stream from a usb-connected device
CD Ripping
k3b KDE's cd burning suite. Automatically names tracks
Image Files
Unix
Images (iso,bin,cue,...)