For those who want to download Youtube videos easily

[myNigga]

There are many Windoze solutions, on which users click stuff and have their videos downloaded, but I've just noticed that Linux options are all manual and users need to write a bunch of commands. So I wrote this small script to make things easy. You end up needing the command line but it's just 1 command and 2 arguments.
This avoids you to download the whole mplayer/mencoder stuff, so it's a 1MB solution (ffmpeg+youtube-dl+the script). The first 2 are in the repositories.
Make it executable and it's good to go. I hope it is of some use for you.

#!/bin/sh
# Author: Saulo Silva (saulo.cpp AT globo DOT com)
# This bash script is a simple front-end for 2 programs, which downloads a video from a Youtube URL and saves it in MPEG format.
# External programs recquired:
#	- youtube-dl (author: Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez, URL: [url]http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/[/url])
#	- ffmpeg (author: Fabrice Bellard, URL: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/[/url])
# Before downloading the source, check if your Linux distro already has it in the repositories.
# The default encoding options are: 56 kb/s and 22050Hz for audio, 500 kb/s and 320x240 for video.
# If you don't want a mess of buttons to click nor programs which you don't know what they do, this solution is for you.
# Distribute and modify this script to suit your needs.


if test $# == 2; then
	URL=$1
	FILENAME=$2
	if [ ! -f "$FILENAME" ]; then
		youtube-dl -o "${FILENAME}.flv" "$URL"
		ffmpeg -i "${FILENAME}.flv" -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 "$FILENAME"
		rm -rf "${FILENAME}.flv"
		printf "\n"
		echo "*** `basename $0`: File download and conversion successful. Have fun."
	else
		printf "\n"
		echo "*** `basename $0` error! The file $FILENAME already exists. Plase choose another name to save."
		exit 1
	fi
else
	printf "\n"
	echo "*** `basename $0` error! I need 2 arguments. Usage: `basename $0` YOUTUBE_URL FILENAME.mpg"
	exit 1
fi

exit 0