Ladies and gentlemen, we present you the fast and easy way to download Youtube videos using VLC and a shell script:
The script:
# INPUT is the URL as seen in the browser
INPUT="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...."
# OUTPUT is any arbitrary file.
OUTPUT="200-UpdatingApplication.mp4"
vlc --intf dummy "${INPUT}" --sout=file/ts:${OUTPUT} vlc://quit
A problem appears if there are many related videos to download (for example a 50 video tutorial).
Using Firefox I just select them all on the "right column" (related videos), right-click to select "see source code selected" and then clean the html to let only the input URL and the video title.
Then a few Vim macros is all that needed to convert them in a shell script.
World Domination is an step closer now!
