Download from Videolecture.net

Measuring Measures suggests a cool trick to download the lectures from videolecture.net. Below is the verbatim of the original: Not to fear, it turns out that you can just use a couple parameters to mplayer at the command line. example: mplayer -dumpstream mms://velblod2.ijs.si/2009/pascal2/ssll09_canberra/reid_leth/ssll09_reid_leth_01.wmv -dumpfile /home/bradford/lectures/reid_learning_theory1.avi

avidemux alternative

I tried to split an MP4 video using avidemux with no luck. No matter how I did it, I couldn’t get the audio in sync. Finally, I found yamb and it worked good. Even though I need to use virtualbox to run it.