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Thank you!!!

Elgero, it works perfectly! After further testing, it look like the "stuck video" issue isn't limited to your utility. I was wrong, it happens to youtube-dl as well; including raw youtube download using wget.

The problem I have with my player looks like it presumes the media file doesnt grow; and, only reads the file length when it first starts playback. If the player looks at the file size; then I doubt there's anything that can be done.

Having said that, great job! Your utility is actually more functional than the original youtube-dl utility! You may see lots of people wanting to use this.

Originally Posted by Elgero

Here's a new version.

https://rapidshare.com/files/18912184/YouTubeDL.zip

- Highest quality stream will be downloaded when format argument is omitted.
- Full url must be specified.
- Stream can be redirected to stdout and played with VLC.

I haven't done anything about the live stream getting stuck (yet). I have no idea what youtube-dl does and I'm not going to dig through the source code of youtube-dl or experiment for hours trying to find that out. If somebody can tell me how youtube-dl does it, then I might be able to fix it.

 -u <url>       YouTube url (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk).
 -l             Lists the available formats for this video.
 -f <number>    Video format to download (see -l).
                Highest quality available will be downloaded when omitted.
 -o <filepath>  FLV output path, if the filepath is - print stream to stdout.
                Video will be downloaded to the same folder as executable and
                YouTube page title will be used as filename when omitted.

Example #1 - List available formats:
  youtubedl -l -u http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk

Example #2 - Download to current folder with page title as file name:
  youtubedl -f 34 -u http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk

Example #3 - Dowload with path specified:
  youtubedl -f 34 -u http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk -o "C:\a.flv"

Example #4 - Print stream to stdout and play in VLC:
  youtubedl -f 34 -u http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk -o - | "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -