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WARNING - This is another of my horribly LONG Beginner Tutorial type posts... One of the best and simplest ways to download videos from YouTube (and a lot of other sites) is to use youtube-dl. youtube-dl is updated more or less daily and it is best 'not' installed from your repos. Instead, open a T...

Which version of Mint do you have? This will determine which one to go for. It'll be the .deb for the one that matches the version of Ubuntu that your Mint is based on. Note: I use youtube-dl in the Terminal and haven't tried the graphical frontend, so probably won't be able to help with that aspec...

Hugh Neutron wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:44 am

https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/#downloads

(select Ubuntu)

that link takes you to a page with a whole heap to chose from
http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/w ... utube-dlg/

Hugh Neutron wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:44 am

(select Ubuntu)

But will ununtu work on mint?

I dont get it! dont see how you get it to work Super easy, here's a nice video. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8DfJ3WN8Y0 But in the video it says the download is x64 and x84 What plannet do these computer programers live on Ow I dont want to be rude but the guy in the video appears to be so f...

pebcak wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:29 am

gumsriddleing wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:56 pm

Just wondered if anyone knew of a program in the softwear manager for this?

This one is not in the repos. It is an appimage that doesn't need installing and can be run as a kind of a portable app:
https://clipgrab.org/

says its a 64bit mate. wont work

zshlover wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:34 am

pebcak wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:18 pm

youtube-dl
https://www.ostechnix.com/youtube-dl-tu ... beginners/

yes I second this. This program is so easy, all you need is to paste the url and it always work, unlike those youtube download websites.

NO! the instructions to that link tell you to install it

pebcak wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:18 pm

youtube-dl
https://www.ostechnix.com/youtube-dl-tu ... beginners/

I have found that one in softwear manager. I will download but not install/ or launch!

I dont get it! dont see how you get it to work

Buffy wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:56 pm

For grabbing YT videos, I use JDownloader 2, which is a stand alone Java app.

where do you get it from

fotonix wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:43 pm

Go to the three-bars icon at the right corner in FireFox Click on that and select Add-Ons. Within there you can search for "video dowload"

there is no search bar present!

yes I am running FF
Do you know how to work the add ons please

Just wondered if anyone knew of a program in the softwear manager for this?

Cheers

just one thing i have noticed!
There is no Tor Onion browser in the softwear manager

For the moment, and even once you have been using Mint for some time, you need to forget about your old Windows ways of searching for applications on the internet; that's not where you will get 99.9% of what applications you install - they will all come from the repositories of the Mint OS using So...

ajgreeny wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 30, 2020 3:44 pm

Install guvcview and see if that works for you; it has always been my very simple go-to for video capture.

I got that one working thanks. But will play around with it tommorw when have more time
Do you know of a video edditing program for mint by any chance?

that dose not mean it will record properly though Why not? BTW: You can recording using Kdenlive, Openshot, ffmpeg, mencoder .... etc. It says an error occured this file contains no playable streams Kdenlive, Openshot, ffmpeg, mencoder They all run on linux mint right? can I get if from the Softwar...

so is the Software Manager the program that you use to download the programs from?

so I click that, then how do i get administrator?

that dose not mean it will record properly though