Clipgrab, video downloader

Works superbly on youtube, dailymotion, vimeo and more with conversion feature, has its own ppa so its updated automatically.

https://launchpad.net/~clipgrab-team/ archive/ppa

 

As well as certain gentlemen sites

 

Ha ha ha thats a per-requisite, an absolute necessity.

 

There's already Firefox plugins which do the same thing, though I would like such a plugin for Chromium.

 

Indeed they do, this one coverts using your existing ffmpeg which means like me if you compile the latest ffmpeg, quality level is quite good.