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Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux.

Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux.
Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux.

Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux. This application allows you to download online videos from a variety of sources such as the popular video-sharing website Youtube. You click the add video button and paste a Youtube URL and the video will be downloaded. I found that this does not work with the https:// URL that you can use with Youtube, but it works very well as a download manager for your favourite online videos. The default download location is the $HOME/xVideoServiceThief_downloads folder. on my system, this is the /home/john/xVideoServiceThief_downloads folder. Now that Adobe is stopping support for the Macromedia flash plugin for browsers other than the privacy-invading chrome web browser, then you will either have to use HTML5 or this application to download online videos and watch them at your leisure. The home page for this project is here: http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/index.php?action=downloads#Linux.

If you get an error when trying to run this application, install these 2 packages.

sudo apt install libqt5webkit5
sudo apt install libqt5script5

This will install all required dependencies for the xVideoServiceThief application.

Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux. The main xvideoservicethief application window.
Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux. The main application window.

Download the compressed package for Linux, unpack it in a folder under your ~/Downloads folder, and then run the install.sh file as your regular user. Then type cd ~/xVideoServiceThief and then ./xvst and the program will open. Another way is to install the xvst binary in the /usr/local/bin folder, this makes the program available to all Linux users. This program works fine with Youtube, but not with Metacafe or Myspace, but I am sure the support for various video-sharing websites will improve as the program develops. This is a fine addition to any Linux desktop, so get downloading today!

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