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ClipGrab - awesome tool to download videos from Youtube

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http://www.linuxandlife.com – When it comes to downloading videos from Youtube, the first tool that most Linux users think of would be youtube-dl. Youtube-dl is actually a very powerful tool but many people prefer using tools with a graphic user interface, and the best video downloading application for Linux with a GUI in my opinion is ClibGrab. ClibGrab has many useful and interactive features with a very easy-to-use interface. Besides Youtube, ClipGrab also supports other popular video hosting sites, namely MyVideo.de, DailyMotion.com, Vimeo.com and MySpass.de. More than that, the new version of ClibGrab comes (Distributions)

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Submitted by Tasshin on 04/03/2012 – Made popular on 04/03/2012

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I have been using youtube-dl to download videos from YouTube, but suddenly it stopped working:

youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglrcytdE9Y&feature=related"

[youtube] Setting language [youtube] wglrcytdE9Y: Downloading video webpage [youtube] wglrcytdE9Y: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] wglrcytdE9Y: Extracting video information

ERROR: unable to download video

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youtube-dl is not working 37 weeks 4 days ago

I am using youtube-dl to download some videos from youtube. But when I write:

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k

I get:

[youtube] Setting language [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k: Downloading video webpage [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k: Extracting video information

ERROR: unable to download video

What am I doing wrong?

Use the command line to quickly download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Ted, Discovery and over 40 other sites using one simple program. It’s called MovGrab and it’s a great, free program for Linux. We’ve shown you a few easy ways to download online videos, and Linux and Mac users can check out check out Clipgrab for basic video downloading.

Awesome & youtube 26 weeks 1 day ago

I run awesome WM on Ubuntu

Recently when I try and watch full screen youtube videos they have been playing in a small letter box - They have not 'full screened'

Vimeo & Dailymotion videos still fullscreen correctly.

This is NOT the problem of a youtube video appearing 'behind' the browser.

I'm using the program youtube-dl to capture a YouTube video. The video is in Hungarian. When I display it in a browser (either reconq or Firefox), it has English subtitles. The captured version doesn't have the subtitles but seems to be otherwise correct.

I have been using clipgrab to download the mp3 audio from youtube videos. My allotted usage of clipgrab has apparently run out. They want a donation of $13.00 to make it work, at least I think thats the process. They actually do not say, if I pay the $13.00 (10 eurs), how long clipgran will work for. Soooo, what can I use in place of it. I really liked clipgrab.

YouTube is the most popular video sharing site – or I can say it has videos about everything. When you’re watching videos on YouTube (Suppose You’re using Ubuntu 11.10) and some of them are such videos that you watch often – repeatedly, in that case you might want to download/save it to your computer’s hard drive.

The description of the abby package says:

"front-end for cclive and clive abby is a front-end for cclive and clive used to download videos from Youtube and other similar video hosts.

There are two simple way to download a YouTube video in Ubuntu / Linux Mint – using a desktop application (gui based or a terminal utility) or using a plugin – in your favorite browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome.