Take a look at this, posted here for your convenience:
You can use Mobile Media
Converter, which will do this task
with ease in 32 bit systems. If you
are using a 64 bit version of Ubuntu
you may wish to follow this
thread in order to make this
software install into a 64 bit system.
The producers haven't delivered yet a
64 bit version, but the 32 bit will
download videos for youtube as in a
native 32 bit system.
If you are interested on obtaining the
video take a look at this, other way
look into another answer in order to
see if you can solve your problem with
youtube-dl. Thank you.
Notwithstanding that youtube-dl is
great in a terminal, there are several
ways to gather the videos from the
youtube buffer, one of which is the
usage of totem in order to play the
video and then extract the buffered
video from the /tmp folder.
In the past (and depending on how
updated is your system: maybe your
case), the buffered videos were saved
into the /tmp folder also by some
browsers (Google Chrome and Chromium
Browser tested by me), but somehow
after updating that behaviour simply
stopped.
When watching the videos or simply by
open it to allow the buffer to
increase via web browser, now they are
saved into the
/home/USERNAME/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache
folder. (where USERNAME is your
username or home folder name).
As I said before, the usage of totem
is yet observing this behaviour.
Depending on flash version and the player used on the web site, the video is stored in the browser cache folder. However, depending on the space allocated for the cache, the video might be deleted after downloading. Additionally, if you are viewing a video that uses rtsp, then it won't be stored anywhere. is not the case for YouTube tho. The video should be in the browser cache folder.
It depends on the browser and on the version of flash player you use.
On Chrome with flash 10, it is usually under ~/.cache/google-chrome/Cache; similarly for Firefox, it is ~/.mozilla/firefox/<id>.default/Cache.
Take a look at this, posted here for your convenience:
Additionally, take a look at this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/27646/youtube-dl-error-please-help-in-this-to-resolve/27659#27659
Pasted here for your convenience:
Depending on flash version and the player used on the web site, the video is stored in the browser cache folder. However, depending on the space allocated for the cache, the video might be deleted after downloading. Additionally, if you are viewing a video that uses rtsp, then it won't be stored anywhere. is not the case for YouTube tho. The video should be in the browser cache folder.
It depends on the browser and on the version of flash player you use. On Chrome with flash 10, it is usually under
~/.cache/google-chrome/Cache; similarly for Firefox, it is~/.mozilla/firefox/<id>.default/Cache.Youtube videos are usually cached in
/tmpfor me. I'm using:There are some changes for Flash 10.2 . Using this script from Webupd8 I can locate the files ( in /proc/ ) and play them in an external player.