On 08/14/2010 11:42 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
One easy way to download is to use youtube-dl. The very latest version
uses --best automatically, which results in a mp4 file in this case.
Whether it is equal to the original I can't tell.
Perl ethusiasts could try
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown
Given the youtube url, it downloads the mp4