Joachim Schrader

To do this you need the following applications installed on your linux-box: # sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ffmpeg sox To download the video do this: # youtube-dl url-to-youtube-video To extract audio from video file, do: # ffmpeg -i videofile   -q:a 0 -map a audio.wav To extract part of audio from wav, do: # sox audio.wav new_audio.wav trim 00:10 04:25 (00:10 is starting position and 04:45 is the end position. This way you can trim away unwanted audio.) To convert the wav-file to mp3, do: # ffmpeg -i new_audio.wav -acodec libmp3lame audio.mp3

Downloading files from your put.io archive can be done with wget, it can be done unattended and you won't even have to initiate the job: Place all the files you would like to download in a folder on put.io (i.e /download). Create the script download.sh on your system. Run the script as a cron-job (crontab -e) download.sh #!/bin/sh wget --limit-rate=20k --no-check-certificat -c -nH -P /FOLDER/ -r --ftp-user=USERNAME --ftp-password=PASSWORD ftp://ftp.put.io/download/* --limit-rate=20k will limit bandwith to 20k --no-check-certificat will skip certificate check -c will make wget continue the download if  interrupted   -nH will stop creating the ftp-path in your download-folder -P /FOLDER/ tell wget where to put the downloaded files -r recursive, so that even folders in download will be downloaded --ftp-user=USERNAME Your username to put.io --ftp-password=PASSWORD Your password to put.io (special characters need a backslash i.e PASS\!WORD if your p...

How to reencode a movie with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i input.mkv -f mp4 -metadata title="title" -acodec libfdk_aac -af "volume=0.5" -ac 2 -ab 192k -vcodec libx265 -x265-params lossless -crf 23 -threads 0 output.mp4 Read this to install all the tools you need to recode. You will also need lossless_slow in your preset-folder. You can only use the presets in this folder.