clive, ver 2.2.13-5+squeeze4 clive comes to mind. Seems to work well. The command line for downloading the best available video is:
clive -f best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SomE1comBo9 You fill in the the v= that you would like. The above is not a real one On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 11:02 -0700, Mark Carlson wrote: > For youtube, I use youtube-dl, which you can get from the package > manager on Ubuntu (or just download the script.) This way, I can > download the videos directly on my file server at home, instead of > having to use Firefox to download the file and then manually copy it > over. > > On the command line: > > youtube-dl -t http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ejt5vXTek > > or just: > > youtube-dl -t m8ejt5vXTek > > > You can use this script to download single videos or entire youtube > playlists. I use the -t option so the video title is in the filename. > Normally, I also use --no-mtime so that when I sort the videos by > modification date, they are in the order that I downloaded them, > instead of the order they were uploaded to Youtube. > > -Mark C. > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:57 PM, caziz <ca...@cuug.ab.ca> wrote: > > Firefox download helper 4.9.8 works for me > > > > > > > > > > On 12-03-07 08:01 PM, Joe S wrote: > >> > >> I was wondering if anyone know how to download videos from > >> YouTube? There are videos that people on forums have uploaded and > >> I would like a copy. > >> > >> Thanks > >> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying