How to download YouTube video on Ubuntu

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Selinap

You can download YouTube video with youtube-dl.

Install youtube-dl

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Download the video

youtube-dl http://the-youtube-video-uri

Convert into MPEG format

ffmpeg -i source.flv output.mpg
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