Looking for a program to capture you-tube style video

[Graham Watkins]

Richard Gelling wrote:
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> Mark C. Miller wrote:
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>> In my PC days, I used to use a program called save2mypc.  You would 
>> specify the link to the video and it was from you tube (for example), it 
>> would save the file to your local hard drive.  There were options to the 
>> file type(mpeg, etc).  It was a very handy program for me as a classroom 
>> teacher.
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>> Now that I've left my pc days behind me, I discover I used that program 
>> more than I thought.  I'd really like to find something in the Ubuntu 
>> world that achieves the same end.  My searches led me nowhere.
>>
>> Can anyone make a suggestion?
>>
>> tnx
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>> mcm
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> Have you looked ta elltube? 
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>  http://elltube.sourceforge.net/
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> Did a good job for me.
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Unless I'm getting entirely the wrong idea about what you are trying to 
do, I should have thought that the firefox add-on Download Helper would 
do everything that you require, including saving in other formats.