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Youtube-dl is a python based platform independent command line tool to download any videos from youtube. In ubuntu, it’s already in the repo just download it using apt-get; others can download it from the authors website http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/.

The instructions is pretty straight forward. In the terminal type, youtube-dl “youtube_video_address” this will save the video in flv format with can be viewed with most popular video player like VLC or Mplayer for linux. If you want to save video file to something else you could use the -o option like this: youtube-dl -o video.flv “youtube_video_address”.

Ever hear a song on myspace but it isn’t yet available for purchase?  Or hell, not even pirated on any Peer2Peer network?  And of course all you want to do is enjoy it on your way to work in your car.  Well now you can.You must have Soundjuicer (in most repositories), mplayer, the lame encoder, and a flash plugin in your browser for this to work.  That being said, this is what you do:

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