downloading video from http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=...

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:52:21 +0000
Frank Shute <frank at esperance-linux.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there any command line tool in FreeBSD for downloading a video
> > from a URL like
> > http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7540047147367608928
> > in the way youtube-dl, for example, does? Thx in advance
> > 
> > 	matthias
> 
> Not exactly what you're looking for but there is a video downloader
> extension for firefox that works with video.google amongst others:
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
> 
> I suppose by reverse engineering the video downloader extension you
> could probably come up with a perl/python script to use from the
> command line. AFAIK nobodys done this.

Do this and youtube-dl still work?

I recently tried to download some youtube videos with the
all-in-one video bookmarket, which used to work fine, and it didn't find
any video on the pages.  I think youtube may have change the way they
display video.