Downloading youtube videos with minitube

Question

Minitube has been working great for a lot of the youtube links, but for videos that require confirmation that you're older than 18, they don't work. Is there something I can do about this?

Or if there's a better way to download the videos do tell.

Solution

Using a terminal you may wish to give a chance to youtube-dl which can be easily installed by dropping sudo apt-get install youtube-dl and its usage is quite easy: simply copy the youtube url and add it in the terminal just after youtube-dl as shown in the next example:

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQEaXAoB6Ck

This code will download Baltimora Chinese Restaurant video.

This will resut in the flv video to be downloaded in the folder where the terminal resides at the very moment that you start downloading, so make sure you first change directory to your videos folder.

Another excellent option is via GUI, by using Mobile Media Converter by MikSoft

And or JDownloader. JDownloader will also allow you to choose which video format you want to donload based on the available formats in youtube, which may include but not limited to: mp4, flv, ogv, mp3 and a few other.

Good luck!