Uwe Hermann - Download videos from Youtube, Google Video and others using Linux [Update] - Comments

another option

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:26:28 +0200

you can use www.pwnyoutube.com to get the desired vds in .flv or .avl format

regards

Is this for _linux_?????? r

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:27:16 +0200

Is this for _linux_?????? r u blind?

sometimes it just helps to

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:48:38 +0200

sometimes it just helps to look in the source-code of the page for "suspicious" links

I use

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:00:22 +0200

I use http://www.savevids.info because you can download in 3 different qualities!!!!

Another option to download

getvideo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:16:56 +0200

Another option to download youtube video. it's easy and no installation needed.
http://getvideo.comxa.com/index2.php

Hi. I think that

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:45:52 +0200

Hi.
I think that www.vid2pc.com its ok for all.
Its simple cool

i think that is a great

Dan12 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:24:15 +0200

i think that is a great Metacafe addon is one of the best to use

Download videos from youtube

Josef34 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:38:29 +0200

Hi guys
I use www.vid2pc.com , very fast and simple

Just watching

Aumonae — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:35:59 +0200

I am new to Ubuntu (9.xx) and would just like to WATCH the videos. I can hear the sound but am unable to see the video... is there a Firefox plugin or some kind of extension that allows you to view?

I am frustrated since I am SUCKY at coding and all that but HATE Microsoft products like Windows!

Flv

Uwe Hermann — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:56:21 +0200

Yes, but that method requires an installed Flash player, which is one of the main reasons why I'm using youtube-dl etc. I have no intentions to use a proprietary Flash player in a browser.

You can Save youtube, metacafe, google videos

Balu — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:57:57 +0200

no need any third party softwares to save or download youtube or metacafe videos just try this new method.

http://electromice.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-savedownload-youtube-and.html

get-flash-videos is another

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:41:53 +0200

A new one that supports some more sites: http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/.

/tmp stores flash videos

it_speaks — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:16:27 +0100

Wow.. i never realized there were any programs for this. As long as I can remember firefox downloads most flash videos right to your /tmp folder upon viewing them (works with youtube, metacafe, etc.) no need for any special software, just copy and paste. But I have adobe's flash player installed, not sure if it works the same for gnash and such, but imagine it would.

universal method

Jos Imberg — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:45:23 +0100

the article http://www.mobiphil.com/?p=82 explains how to do it the "universal way" without relying on any script, a kind of works for all the sites. I tried it even with less "catholic" sites, and it works.

MetaTuber.com

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:15:00 +0100

I discovered another great YouTube video downloader MetaTuber.com

Download videos from Youtube, Google Video and others using Linux [Update]

Uwe Hermann — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:56:53 +0200

Many online video sites such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Metacafe, and others only provide limited or inconvenient access to the videos; either they require you to install the proprietary Flash player (and I surely won't do that), and/or you can only view them online (but not download them).

There are some solutions, each with advantages and disadvantages:

youtube-dl, a command line script to download Youtube videos.
metacafe-dl, same as above but for Metacafe videos.
clive, a command line tool (with optional newt UI) for Youtube, Google Video (seems defunct at the moment) and Dailymotion.
VideoDownloader, a Firefox plugin which is supposed to work with more than 60 video sites (Youtube and Google Video are among them). The only disadvantage compared to the other solutions: you need to start Firefox + X11 (no pure command line usage).
UnPlug, a Firefox plugin similar to VideoDownloader, but with the advantage that it doesn't use the VideoDownloader web service (but rather figures out the video URLs itself).
Gnash, a free software Flash video player is another option, but AFAICS it's not yet ready for daily usage (but it's getting there).
swfdec, another Free Software Flash player, is actually working quite nice with Youtube already.

After the download, you can either view the videos using (e.g.) mplayer, or recode them into a more sane format. For all of the above programs there are Debian packages available, except for VideoDownloader/UnPlug (but you can easily install those from within Firefox).

Update 2007-07-26: Added UnPlug and swfdec (thanks Joe Buck and Josh Triplet for the comments).