downloading videos in ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On 03/14/2012 11:58 AM, Sonny Golovine wrote:
> Two ways to do it efficiently. Either use youtube-dl as mentioned in the
> other replies or go into the browser cache and retrieve the video. When
> you watch a Youtube video it actually downloads to your browser cache in
> .flv format so all you have to do it go in and copy it (or move it) to
> the desired location.

I used to do that for long time, but within the last year it seems that 
the file becomes broken after the last few seconds. So, I switched to 
using "DownloadHelper" as an extension to Firefox and it works like a 
charm. Ric


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