clip grab is a popular video grabbing tool that supports encoding to other formats with out first having to download the video. simply paste a compatible URL, choose the quality and format and click the "grab this clip" button. it also supports proxy configuration and can also add ID3 metadata to MP3 files
link==> http://clipgrab.de/en
it is free but i couldn't find any info on weather it was open source
registry entrys can be found in
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-76291745-1963149249-1877909011-1001\Software\AppDataLow\Software\Video_Clip_Grab
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It sounds like downloading videos from these websites would be a violation of copyright laws.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
My use of Google indicates that I am insane.
No, if you look, we have "damnvid" hosted on the site, which does the same thing.
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about Rock'n'Roll." -Shigeru Miyamoto
ClipGrab is under the GPL license and thus Open Source software. The developer of the program (Philipp Schmieder) has documented this explicitly in a German forum at the end of his first contribution. Also confirms every website (which offers the download of the program) the Open Source license. In line with the GPL, the developer has offered on its website http://clipgrab.de/ the source code for download.
And in analogy to DamnVid Portable ClipGrab is perfectly legal, since this program offers the possibility to download and convert videos from video sites like YouTube, MyVideo, DailyMotion, Vimeo and MySpass.de.
I think it depends on the video you want to download.
If the video is copyrighted material, its most likely illegally on youtube and thus its illegal to download it from youtube.
But if its for example a how-to-video or a "this is my fist look at Fedora 15/my new Samsung laptop/my garden hose or whatever"-video, its legal to download it.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
This restriction on the download of copyrighted material is obvious (except owner gives explicitely material free for download). But this fact applies, of course, no matter what program I use. And thus also on the program DamnVid Portable, which is available for download on PortableApps.com.