Ubuntu
totem package

  1. Bug #288494 (sinum)
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 288494

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Wayne H (wha05499) wrote : Re: the youtube code needs to be updated

I already had the totem package above already installed (came thru automatic update) but it still didn't fix it. The way I had been doing it was to copy the downloaded youtube video from the /tmp folder to desktop and add extension .flv. This used to work about 6 months ago but no longer.

My fix:
Download package youtube-dl with synaptic package manager.
To use, open terminal and enter:
 youtube-dl <youtube video URL>
The resulting .flv file will be saved to your home folder (unless you changed directory in terminal).
I can play this flv in totem no problems.

Hope that helps.