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[Rick]

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> writes:
> video i was talking about
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=9zLHWngxSb8

The youtube-dl Debian package is handy for downloading
a permanent copy of YouTube videos.

(as root)
# apt-get install youtube

(as regular user)
$ youtube-dl -s http://youtube.com/watch?v=9zLHWngxSb8
Retrieving video webpage... done.
Extracting video URL parameters... done.
Video data found at http://youtube-706.vo.llnwd.net/d1/02/13/9zLHWngxSb8.flv
$ wget -c http://youtube-706.vo.llnwd.net/d1/02/13/9zLHWngxSb8.flv
$ mplayer 9zLHWngxSb8.flv