Encontrandome en Ubuntu linux y con ayuda del script youtube-dl es sencillo descargar los videos en linux
Download the script YouTube-dl (thanks to Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez for this nice script). Just put that script in your ~/bin or /usr/bin directories or somewhere in the application path.
To download the flv video do this :
youtube-dl
e.g : youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append “&fmt=18″:
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=ID&t=SIGNATURE&fmt=18
ID is the video’s identification value, SIGNATURE is a value that prevents you from downloading the file just by knowing the ID. You could create this URL by looking at the source code of a YouTube page, but it’s much easier to automatically generate it.
ahora puedo entar a mis servidor por ssh y descargar los videos de youtube en mi servidor, no tengo que esperar horas con la velocidad de mierda de infinitum 128k.