keepvid.com works too posted by msbutah at 9:00 PM on February 1, 2011
seconding keepvid.com posted by vincele at 9:02 PM on February 1, 2011
Steam Transport was recommended in the Green at some earlier point in time, so that's what I downloaded. posted by sardonyx at 9:40 PM on February 1, 2011
I use youtube-dl. It's command line based, and prone to break, as it's not in Youtube's interest to let this happen. But it's easily updated, and someday I'll build a podcast tool with it. posted by pwnguin at 9:42 PM on February 1, 2011
You don't say what system you're on so, just in case - MacTubes for Mac OS X. posted by unliteral at 10:09 PM on February 1, 2011
I'm on a Mac. If you use Safari browser there's an easy way to download the original flv file. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows the Activity window. Click on the arrow to show details about what is being loaded.
You'll notice an element whose size is over 0.5MB (most of the time, over 5MB). Double-click on it (even if it is still loading), and Safari will download it. When the download is over, navigate to the file in the Finder (which will probably be called get_video) and add the extension .flv to its name. Now you can play it with VLC or with QuickTime (only if you have Perian installed). posted by [vagabond] at 10:32 PM on February 1, 2011 [1 favorite]
Firefox with DownloadHelper add-on, simple as can be, and cross-platform; long as you have Firefox, you're set. posted by dancestoblue at 10:56 PM on February 1, 2011 [1 favorite]
PwnYouTube works too. posted by squasher at 12:09 AM on February 2, 2011
Youtube Downloader. If it breaks, check for an update to the program - they usually update it to fix it again. posted by IndigoRain at 1:47 AM on February 2, 2011
I use downloadhelper too. The only tricky bit is sometimes the down load list it produces has several .flv on it; for youtube the one at the top is the one you want. posted by Mitheral at 5:13 AM on February 2, 2011
xVideoThief takes the page URL and downloads the video in any of a series of formats.
It, quite handily, lets you download a video and save just the sound part as an mp3. posted by sodium lights the horizon at 5:39 AM on February 2, 2011
posted by Sternmeyer at 8:59 PM on February 1, 2011 [4 favorites]