Hi all,
I would like to be able to view some youtube videos (Some nice photography tutorials) on my laptop as I travel back and forth from work. Is there a way to download those as I do not have any GSM internet connection?

Some light video format would do, my laptop is a single core, so no super high resolutions please

Alex

There are several add-ons for Firefox. Download Helper is one. There's another one which I had installed on another system and I can't check the exact name, but it was like "save tube" and it was for youtube where it allowed you to choose the quality of the video you wish to save. But thinking about that further, I believe you can just choose to view lower resolution while watching a youtube video, to account for a slow connection, or processing power; and in that case the download helper would merely save the video you were watching.

For viewing I prefer vlc. It allows you to look at and step through frames; so if someone has taken a video of artwork or still photos, stopping and selecting the clearest frame is beneficial.

on firefox, i use FlashGot

download flash & video is nice add-ons on firefox

youtube-dl is a great tool for downloading one video or many.
http://www.tecmint.com/install-youtu...download-tool/

The article above shows how to use it.

Check your repos first for youtube-dl, if not available then download from their site
http://youtube-dl.org/

This is not in the article. To download the video with the exact title of video use
"%(title)s.mp4" or "%(title)s.flv"

for example
this will download a 360x640 mp4 file. The -f18 is optional or you can adjust it for the quality and format.