Along with all the videos of all FOSDEM editions, the FOSDEM team put the 2009 videos on YouTube. So here is the video about Gemvid: [youtube &hl=en&fs=1] The presentation in PDF is still available from the Gemvid webpage (and in live here).
There are many websites around that allow you to download videos from YouTube. But it’s not possible to do it directly from YouTube. And you end up with a proprietary Flash video file. Although you can install the Flash plug-in on your computer, there are cases when you don’t want to do so or you are even not able to do so. So, for whatever reason, you want a video from YouTube on your computer in a file format suitable for any kind of multimedia viewer? Here is a small (15 lines) bash script to download and convert a YouTube video you like in standard MPEG format. For that purpose, you’ll need wget (usually, you already have it on your GNU/Linux box) and ffmpeg. ...