Free youtube video ideas software for linux

Download Youtube video is a Konqueror service menu to download and encode youtube videos.
This is a hack of another service menu that stoped working (at least for me): http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=37509
Main features:
- Download videos with the KDE file copy dialog instead of using KGet
- Automatically encode videos with mencoder, or just download
You can use ffmpeg too, just comment out the right lines in the python file, Im unable to encode some videos with ffmpeg, so mencoder is the default

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.

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.

Many users prefer Gnome Window Manager but cant go without Amarok. Gnome Play Video in Totem allows Gnome Users to view video or audio externally in Totem.

This is very useful for Video Podcasts.

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. youtube-dl requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later, and its not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac. The latest version is 2006.08.10. Its licensed under the MIT License, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like complying with a few simple conditions.

Ill try to keep it updated if YouTube.com changes the way you access their videos. After all, its a simple and short program. However, I cant guarantee anything. If you detect it stops working, check for new versions and/or inform me about the problem, indicating the program version you are using. If the program stops working and I cant solve the problem but you have a solution, Id like to know it. If that happens and you feel you can maintain the program yourself, tell me.

I like using Amarok for managing my podcasts but I wasnt able to play my video podcasts.

Amarok Video Player adds a PlayVideo/Play menu item to the context menu which runs KMPlayer.

Edit the script to change KMplayer to another video player.