A few months ago, I posted here a tutorial on downloading or saving Flash/YouTube Videos on Linux the easy way. If the previous instruction is really difficult for you to grasp, then you should read this latest entry very carefully :-) Because now I'm going to show you how in the simplest way possible you can download a YouTube video plus convert it at the same time.

youtube-dl is a small free opensource command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. youtube-dl is a platform independent tool that works on UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. The latest version of Youtube-dl is 2008.08.09 and requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later.

Everyday, plentiful funny video clips are uploaded to YouTube.com. These videos will disappear soonest due to reasons, why not to download those good video clips and save to our computer before they're gone forever? What more convert them to watch on your favoriate players like iPod, Creative Zen Vision, Archos, iRiver, aigo MP4 player, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Smart Phone etc.?

How to Convert FLV (YouTube/Flash Videos) to MPEG in Linux: Not long ago, we've shown you how to download YouTube videos from the Linux terminal, and then shared with you an easy way to download and convert YouTube videos to MP4. Today, we will be showing you a very simple way to convert .flv (YouTube/Flash videos) to .mpg via the Linux terminal.

How to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu is probably among the first things a newbie Ubuntu user will ask for. There are simply a number of application to do the same, but there is an even better way. Downloading YouTube videos is Ubuntu is not the right keyword, you can actually copy-paste the YouTube video.

Utube Ripper is an application written in Gambas that works exclusively on Linux. It's useful to download and convert Youtube videos in a simple and efficient way. You can also convert them into a non-flash format. You can use the "Rip audio only" option to extract audio from a YouTube video and can convert into an MP3 format.

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com.
Install youtube-dl in Ubuntu

Downloading YouTube videos is among the first things you will look for once you get Ubuntu installed in your computer. Let me introduce you the easiest way to download(or save?) YouTube videos in your Ubuntu machine.

Youtube is one of the most popular video sharing sites on Internet. There are several applications that let you download and store on your hard disk. Elltube is one such application which works both on Linux and windows.