youtube-dl is a command line utility that can be used to download Youtube videos. It has many command line switches ; most notably -t to save the video with title of the video as filename, -c to continue the download instead of starting over. It can be installed in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and Maverick Meerkat via Synaptic by enabling universe repository. Then running the following command will update it to the latest version: Continue Reading
xVideoServiceThief – Youtube Video Downloader for Ubuntu Linux
xVideoServiceThief is a Desktop based video downloader for Linux, Windows and Mac. It is capable of downloading videos from Youtube, Google, Yahoo and various other sites. You can even queue the videos and it downloads with resume support (if the server supports it). It can resume Youtube videos.

