ramrip

Ramrip is a software that acts as a script wrapping up mplayer/ffmpeg. Specifically, it has the capacity to download real video or real audio streams and encode them. For instance, video files can be transcoded to mpeg format using ffmpeg. On the other hand, audio-only streams are encoded to ogg/vorbis, mp3, or wav formats. However, it varies from ram2ogg in that it downloads uncompressed files first before encoding them. As a result, using ram2ogg for audio streams is preferable.

It is worth noting that due to the RAMrip's process of downloading uncompressed videos, a substantial amount of free disk space is necessary since un-compressed videos are massive files. For the time being, the software does not have a manual page, though one can run the program with a -h option to see the following help:

Usage: ramrip [options] [basename]
Options:
- h: This cruft
- v: Print name and version
- V: Verbose mode
- d: Dirty mode (don't delete intermediate files)
- a: Audio format (ogg [default], mp3, wav)
- f: Video format (mpeg [default])

As exemplified, one can run the software using the following options:

$ ramrip -f mpeg wiggle Downloads
$ ramrip Downloads
$ ramrip -a mp3 Downloads
$ ramrip -a wav Downloads

This flexibility comes in handy by allowing users to tailor their experience according to their needs.