Free save video from youtube to computer software for linux

Get YouTube Video is a service menu for KDE.

Usage:
Right-click onto a link to a YouTube video or at the background of the YouTube site showing the video and choose action -> Download YouTube Video -> ...

Install:
cd ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
tar xvzf /path/to/youtube-servicemenu.tar.gz

I made some modifications to the YouTube Service Menu. It didnt work for me, so I looked at the source. I added a differnent method to guess the video_id and I added additional parameters to the query string to download the video.

The query-string trick is:
video_id is a part of the site-url, in which the video is embedded:

video_ids = set(re.findall(www.youtube.com/v/([-A-Za-z0-9_]+), data))

or

m = re.search(video_id=(?P [-A-Za-z0-9_]+), data)

or

m = re.search(v=(?P [-A-Za-z0-9_]+), data)

Then I do:

url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s" % video_id

Now url points to a site in which the video will be embedded, so I can apply following regular expression to its contens:

m = re.search(watch_fullscreen?(?P .*?)&fs=1&title=" + "(?P

Want to watch Youtube video, but you dont have Flash plugin? (ex: gnu/linux ppc os), so try this great script to watch STREAMING VIDEOS from Youtube! You dont need to download video on your disk, you can stream directly the FLV videos from Youtube!

MPlayer Youtube Video Streamer lets you watch YouTube videos even if you dont have the flash plugin.

Usage: myvs [options] video_url

Options:

-h, --help print this help text and exit
-v, --version print program version and exit
-u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME account username
-p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD account password
-o FILE, --output=FILE output video file name
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --stream do not download video, but stream directly by mplayer
-C, --cache set a cache of 300k, for slow connection
-c, --cycle cycle 20 times while youtube redirect to vo.llnwd.net (that streams .flv)
-t, --title use title in file name
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-O, --streamonly Force the script to stream only, if it doesnt find a valid stream server simply quit

Who to use it with Firefox:

Now I will explain you how to get it working with Firefox,

First we need a Firefox extension called: Lanchy,
this extension give us the ability to open directly from Firefox Youtube video on youtube webpage (not on all webpages that have a youtube video!

You ALWAYS need the youtube videos webpage! After you have installed Launchy (from firefoxs addon site), restart Firefox, now it will ask you to insert a Launchys button on your toolbar (DO IT! so open Youtube videos will be very simply), after that go on the preferences/option of this extension and uncheck the option: "search automatically programs".

Now copy the "launchy.xml" file that you found on the package and copy it on your directory:
".mozilla/firefox/YOUR_ID.default/chrome/" , after copied it, please dont forget to edit it with your myvs.py COMPLETE PATH, and add or delete oppurtune option to pass to the script.

Now restart again firefox an watch if it recognise the command (by pressing the G).

Go on youtube.com, open a video webpage, click on the G button-> Open in Mplayer Youtube Video Streamer.

Save Complete is a Firefox extension that saves a webpage completely, providing a better alternative to the flawed built-in save functionality of Firefox.

As more and more sites use CSS, Firefoxs built-in complete save becomes increasingly less effective, as it doesnt support stylesheets.

This extension fixes this, and saves the complete page, including all images and all stylesheets associated with the document, even imported stylesheets and images referenced in the stylesheet files.

Gaim Video and Voice Support is a friendly fork of the gaim project to concentrate on video and voice support, which will eventually be backported.

Kvm is a Konqueror service menu which allows to manage your videos without to use a graphical application.
Kvm (Kde Video Menu) service menu can be considered as a frontend of ffmpeg.
Enhancements:
- fix some bugs!

Youtube Downloader GUI project is a GUI for the famous python script youtube-dl. It is made in Kommander, so you need it. The project is packed in rpm with icon, desktop file.

openSUSE repo:

http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/pnemec/SUSE_Linux_10.1/
http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/pnemec/openSUSE_10.2/

It should work on other distribution too.