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How to download video from video sites easily on Ubuntu 17.04.

  1. Downloading clips with clipgrab
  2. Watch Youtube videos with MPV
  3. Download Youtube videos while playing them with mpv

If the xvideoservicethief application does not work for you in 2019, give this one a go instead, it is working very well on multiple websites: https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/how-to-download-videos-from-websites-in-2019/. it is called Clibgrab and does the same job as xVideoServiceThief, but works with Vimeo and Youtube. As well as Dailymotion.

Downloading videos from online websites is very easy. The xVideoServiceThief program is an easy way to download online videos.

Get the program here.

http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/.

Download this file: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xviservicethief/xVST_2_5_1_x64-linux-dynamic.tar.gz.

Then install these packages.

sudo apt install qtdeclarative5-dev libqt5webkit5

Then unpack the xVST_2_5_1_x64-linux-dynamic.tar.gz file and run the install.sh as a normal user to install to your home directory.

After that, move to the new directory: cd $HOME/xVideoServiceThief/.

And run the new application.

./xvst
xVideoServiceThief window open.
xVideoServiceThief window open.

Downloading clips with clipgrab

Now click add video and paste a video URL into the field. Then click OK. Then it will be automatically downloaded and converted to DivX or Mpeg formats.

xVideoServiceThief ready to download a Youtube video.
xVideoServiceThief ready to download a Youtube video.

This is how easy it is to download a Youtube video on Linux with xVideoServiceThief. This is a very powerful tool for saving online videos.

Rip a Youtube video to a wav file. a very good way to save a music video.

https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/easily-rip-a-youtube-video-music-collection/.

Watch Youtube videos with MPV

https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/watch-youtube-videos-with-the-mpv-movie-player-this-is-a-very-simple-process/.

Download Youtube videos while playing them with mpv

Another method with mpv. This program is a replacement for mplayer, and can play Youtube videos easily. But this is how I downloaded a Youtube video to an mkv file.

mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXQ17cNzGUg --record-file kord.mkv

This really works well and is a good way to save a Youtube video in good quality.

Here is another example, downloading a Kitchen Nightmares clip while preserving video quality.

mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2bCOGMiB8E --record-file kitchen.mkv

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