Fellow Escapists! What video downloader do you use?

[Micromyni]

Exactly as stated in the topic; I wanna know what my fellow Escapists use to download and convert videos from everywhere. Youtube, Dailymotion, whatever. I use Realplayer, but it's annoying being only able to convert to MP3.

 

[Gdek]

I've been using this one: http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

It contains a host of different conversion programs to convert from pretty much any format to another and at whatever quality you like.

 

[Esotera]

I'm using youtube-mp3 at the minute, although I've had some weird combinations in the past (downloading video files and then stripping them to mp3s using an mplayer script).

Anyway, I'm currently writing a generic downloader program with python, so downloading videos en masse at a limited download rate will probably be one of its main features. I'm sick of depending on third-party stuff for every goddamn site out there.

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

Exactly as stated in the topic; I wanna know what my fellow Escapists use to download and convert videos from everywhere. Youtube, Dailymotion, whatever. I use Realplayer, but it's annoying being only able to convert to MP3.

Crap i got ninja'd by the topic creator. But i mainly use it to convert to something use-able by my iPod

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

For grabbing flash videos, there's a great plugin for Firefox called, appropriately enough, "Download Flash and Video." It doesn't matter what site you're on, if it's a flash file, it'll grab it. It doesn't work with Hulu or the official channels on Youtube (you know, the part that's competing with Hulu), but it works with just about everything else.

(Full disclosure, I use it to "device shift" videos, mainly from my laptop to my homebrew enabled Wii. I would just connect the laptop directly to the TV, but it's a standard def TV, so it doesn't have an HDMI or VGA input. That's why I tried downloading official youtube videos. The system they use to prevent you from downloading them like that also prevents you from viewing them directly through an app, like the official Youtube app for Android, or the various homebrew media players for the wii. I know about Hulu because I've checked for the hell of it.)

Edit: I forgot to mention, that's just for downloading, but I don't need to convert the videos, so it's not a big deal. What modern media player can't handle an FLV file?