movgrab
movgrab is a downloader for all those pesky sites that insist you use a big fat browser that runs flash in order to see their content. It’s a command-line app written in straight C.
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Capture
Launch Capture on your iPhone and it starts recording video immediately, saving the resulting recording to your camera roll on quit.
yturl
A simple YouTube media URL grabber for use with MPlayer or similar, like so:
mplayer -cache 8192 "$(yturl 'gWJIQm9qH-w')"
fbff
A small ffmpeg-based framebuffer media player.
I use mplayer -vo fbdev on those rare occasions when I want to watch a video and haven’t launched X, but if you spend most of your time at the console this is a great lightweight alternative.
videotop
A free console browser for online videos, written in python with vim-like keybindings.
Specifically, YouTube videos.
Subtitle Editor
Subtitle Editor is a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD. It can be used for new subtitles or as a tool to transform, edit, correct and refine existing subtitle. This program also shows sound waves, which makes it easier to synchronise subtitles to voices.
OGMRip
OGMRip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI, OGM, MP4, or Matroska files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix, mp4box, oggenc, lame, and faac to perform its tasks.
Youtube Downloader
YouTube Downloader makes it easy for you to save YouTube videos to your computer. Just drag and drop the YouTube URL onto the app and an mp4 will be downloaded to your Downloads folder.]
For OS X.
Clipgrab
ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many other online video sites.
mplayer-resumer
An mplayer wrapper script that will resume playback of previously-stopped video where you left off.
TinyOgg
Feed TinyOgg the URL of a YouTube video, and it’ll convert it from Flash to Ogg Theora and host the resulting file for 48 hours.
DownloadTube
Download YouTube videos in a variety of formats.
