Download and Convert YouTube Videos with DamnVid

DamnVid is yet another YouTube video downloader and converter. It's cross platform application to do such tasks. It supports not only YouTube, but many video sharing websites such as DailyMotion, Veoh, Metacafe, etc. DamVid is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Norwegian.

DamnVid has three main features:
1. Video converter. DamnVid can be used to convert your videos in hard drive or downloaded from video sharing websites.
2. Video downloader. If you need an application to download ONLY without converting, DamnVid can do such task.
3. Video download and converter. DamnVid converts as it downloads, making the whole processes much faster than the other application.

Installation on Ubuntu
Ubuntu (and its derivatives) users can install DamnVid by typing the following command:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damnvid/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install damnvid

If you are using another distribution of Linux, please download DamnVid here.

DamnVid is also available for Windows and Mac OSX, please click here for further information.

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DownVerter: Free YouTube Video Downloader and Converter

DownVerter is a free, fast, and easy-to-use YouTube video downloader and converter which can run on Windows, Linux, and Mac. It can convert YouTube videos to many video (and audio only) formats: MP3, AVI, 3GP, MP4, MOV, WMV for your handheld devices. It allows you to "download only" without converting too!

To download and convert YouTube video, all you need to do is follow the three easy steps. First, paste the video link in the given field, wait a moment until DownVerter displays the information of the video such as thumbnail, total views, available download quality, etc. Second, select your download and convert settings. You can set download quality, conversion format, conversion quality, video volume, and destination folder to save converted video. Third, simply hit the "Download & Convert" button and DownVerter will do the rest.

Installing on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can install DownVerter by downloading the *.deb package here. It's available for 32bit and 64bit architectur. Once downloaded, type the following command to install:

• sudo dpkg -i downverter-32.deb

Change "downverter-32.deb" with the filename of downloaded file.

Once installed, DownVerter can be accessed from Internet section on Menu. Enjoy :)

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How to Download All Videos of YouTube Playlist on Ubuntu

Imagine you have a playlist on YouTube that contains hundreds of videos in it and you want to download them, what will you do? Do you really want to download them one by one? I think that's not a good idea. So, in this my first post, I'd like to show you how download all videos of YouTube playlist by simply type a few commands.

Applications used:
In order to getting this trick done, we have to install two applications called umph and youtube-dl. Umph is such an application that can parse YouTube feeds, it can parse playlists, favourite lists, and user upload lists. Youtube-dl is well-known command line tool for downloading YouTube videos by giving their video links.



Installing applications:
Fortunately, I've created a PPA contains those two applications. Simply type the following command to install them:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install umph youtube-dl

Usage instructions:

• umph playlist_ID | youtube-dl -l -a -

You can get playlist_ID from playlist URL, for example, we will download all videos in PHPAcademy 200 JQuery Tutorials, see the picture below for more details.

Take a look at part marked with red box, you will get the weird phrase "PL46408891B63317A4". By removing the "PL" characters, now you have the playlist ID: 46408891B63317A4. You're ready to go:

• umph 46408891B63317A4 | youtube-dl -l -a -

By default, umph will parse 25 videos. So, by executing the above command you will download the first video until 25th video. If you want to download all videos (200 videos) you must add an argumen "-m 200".

• umph -m 200 46408891B63317A4 | youtube-dl -l -a -

The tricky part is in umph command line arguments, please take look at this documentation for further information.

Have a question? Please let me know by filling in the comment form :)

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