DamnVid is a cross-platform application to download and convert videos from your hard drive or from dozens of video sharing websites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Veoh, Metacafe, etc. Basically, it’s a video downloader and converter that sucks less.
What is DamnVid?
* A video converter, first and foremost. It makes use of the wonderful FFmpeg library, used in other software like VLC Media Player or Google Chrome.
* A video downloader. While DamnVid can convert local video files just fine, it can also download video streams from most video sharing websites. But what gives it the edge over other video downloaders and converters is that not only it does both the downloading and the converting, but it does them at the same time: it converts as it downloads, making the whole process much faster.
* A cross-platform software that sucks less.
What isn’t DamnVid?
* A video editor. While it can do basic things like change the resolution, aspect ratio, or volume of the video, DamnVid is by no means a video editor.
* A video player. DamnVid never plays anything.
* A media library. DamnVid organizes its videos into customizable folders, but it stops there.
* A DVD ripper.
* A stable program. Seriously. It just sucks less. Everything is relative.
Install Damnvid in Ubuntu
First you need to download latest version of .deb from here now you need to install this .deb package by double clicking or using the following command from your terminal
sudo dpkg -i damnvid_1.5-1_i386.deb
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What’s wrong with me today second post in the last 10 minutes!!! ah ah ah… Anyway after installation damnvid wouldn’t launch for me, this is the output from terminal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 6, in
File “__main__.py”, line 105, in
File “__main__DamnVid__.py”, line 27, in
File “wx/__init__.py”, line 45, in
File “wx/_core.py”, line 4, in
File “wx/_core_.py”, line 14, in
ImportError: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_desktop_app_info_get_filename
Any ideas?
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admin Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 6:35 am
Go to Applications--->Sound & Video
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heepie: Are you using Lucid Lynx? It’s not officially supported yet. However, if you’re on the 64-bit beta, you can try the 64-bit .deb package for lucid linked to on this page:
http://code.google.com/p/damnvid/issues/detail?id=49
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yeah using lucid… I’ll wait until there’s a supported version then.
Thanks…
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There now is a Lucid-compatible version, and there is even a PPA. Can you update the post?
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