http://tech-junky.com/linux/download-videos-from-youtube-in-ubuntu/ Your Daily Tech-Byte Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tech-junky.com/linux/download-videos-from-youtube-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 OfNoNation Thu, 19 May 2011 13:12:18 +0000 http://tech-junky.com/?p=54#comment-2179 It's very simple to grab any Flash flv file from Youtube, or any other Flash video site, without any extra software. While a Youtube video is playing in your browser, the flv file will be loading into the '/tmp' directory ('file system/tmp' in Nautilus) on your hard disk with a name like 'FlashXXcWWueH' (no file extension) and will remain there till you close the browser page. Once the video is fully loaded you can copy and paste it to wherever you want to store it before you close the Youtube page. Remember that if you pause the video on the browser player the file will continue to download to completion in the tmp directory. I do around 10 at a time in separate Firefox tabs (right-click a link and select 'open in new tab', then start the video and pause it once it's started loading) and come back after a while to copy/paste them into my video clips directory. I then rename them and add the '.flv' extension, though that's not necessary if they are only to be played on a Linux machine. It’s very simple to grab any Flash flv file from Youtube, or any other Flash video site, without any extra software.
While a Youtube video is playing in your browser, the flv file will be loading into the ‘/tmp’ directory (‘file system/tmp’ in Nautilus) on your hard disk with a name like ‘FlashXXcWWueH’ (no file extension) and will remain there till you close the browser page. Once the video is fully loaded you can copy and paste it to wherever you want to store it before you close the Youtube page.
Remember that if you pause the video on the browser player the file will continue to download to completion in the tmp directory.
I do around 10 at a time in separate Firefox tabs (right-click a link and select ‘open in new tab’, then start the video and pause it once it’s started loading) and come back after a while to copy/paste them into my video clips directory. I then rename them and add the ‘.flv’ extension, though that’s not necessary if they are only to be played on a Linux machine.

]]> http://tech-junky.com/linux/download-videos-from-youtube-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-65 YouTube Vidoes! Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:01:52 +0000 http://tech-junky.com/?p=54#comment-65 Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I am subscribing to your feed so I don\'t miss the next post! Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I am subscribing to your feed so I don\’t miss the next post!

]]> http://tech-junky.com/linux/download-videos-from-youtube-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Craig Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:26:44 +0000 http://tech-junky.com/?p=54#comment-60 Thanks a lot man!! this trick is really cool. Thanks a lot man!! this trick is really cool.

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