This handy addition to your software toolbox offers the ability to download YouTube videos in multiple file formats which include .flv, .avi and .mp4.

One of the nice features of this downloader is that it gives you the option to download in High Definition formats if they are available on the site.  In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to download a YouTube video with this easy to use software application.

To demo the YouTube Downloader HD product, I decided to download a copy of one of my favorite amateur videos – How to be Ninja.  This comical home video sets out to show you what it takes to be a ninja, which is the ultimate goal of any geek.

You can get started by launching the YouTube Downloader HD application.  As you can seen in the screen capture below, the interface is very straight-forward.  Within the main window, you can select the download type, set the video URL, select a save location, update the application, and control the download process.

The default download type is AVI, and I would recommend that setting for the average user – unless an HD version is available and you require high def resolutions.  Copy the URL of the video you wish to download from the address bar in your browser and paste it into the Video URL field.  The default save location is your documents folder, however I changed mine to my Desktop for the sake of this demo.

Once you have your settings adjusted to your liking, click the Start button, located in the lower right corner of the app.  The options in the window will become disabled and the progress bar will begin to increase.

Eventually, when the download completes, you will get the following prompt and the status bar will indicate that downloading has finished.

That’s all there is to it.  Now you can navigate to your download folder and play the video in your favorite media player software whenever you want.  If you want to check for updates to the application, simply click the Update button located on the right-hand side of the window.

Download your copy today!

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Often, you have heard a rare nice song from a particular YouTube video and you wish you could just save that song (without the video) into your hard disk. Well, in Ubuntu, you can use UTube Ripper to extract audio from YouTube video and save it as mp3 file.

UTube Ripper is an application that works exclusively on Linux. It’s useful to download and convert YouTube videos in a simple and efficient way. While there are many online sites that can take the YouTube url, extract the audio and let you download the mp3 file, it gives you little room for customization. UTube Ripper provides more choices and allows you to set the conversion sample rate and bit rate. It can also convert the flv file to MPEG or avi video format.

Install UTube Ripper

Download the UTube Ripper deb file to your desktop.

Double click the file to start installation. This will fetch and install all its dependencies.

Once installed, go to Applications -> Internet -> Utube ripper.

Now, on http://www.youtube.com, find your favorite video and the song that you want to extract. Copy the exact url and paste it to the text field in the ‘Utube Video URL’ section

. Press ‘Download’ to start download the flv file to your computer. The downloaded file will be saved as video.flv under the /home/yourusername/.utube folder.

To extract mp3, check ‘Rip audio only‘ under the ‘Convert FLV’ section. Click ‘Browse’, navigate to the /.utube folder and select the file video.flv. Click ‘Convert’ to start the conversion. The mp3 file will be saved as audio.mp3. Rename the mp3 file and move it to other folder (else it will be overwritten in the next conversion).

To adjust the sampling rate and bit rate, click on the ‘Setting’ . You can customize the video output type, audio output type, audio sample rate, audio bit rate, video bit rate, video screen resolution.

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