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[HOWTO] Modify youtube-dl to make it bandwidth friendly by adding option to download lowest quality video

August 17th, 2010 Permalink

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 [...]

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

December 30th, 2009 Permalink

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.


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.

Screenshot 2 300x214 xVideoServiceThief   Youtube Video Downloader for Ubuntu Linux

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