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TinyOgg lets you quickly convert YouTube videos to Ogg format
It's fairly easy to download YouTube videos, but they usually come in FLV or MP4 format when you grab them right off YouTube. TinyOgg is a lightweight service that lets you grab those same videos, or just the audio, in the open source Ogg format.
It couldn't be simpler to use: you just feed it with a YouTube URL, and hit Convert. You then get a short URL; after a few minutes, this URL contains a link to an Ogg file you can download and watch at your leisure. By default, this link is made public and can be seen in the queue.
There's also a more detailed form that lets you keep the link private (so it doesn't show up in the public queue), download the file in the highest quality from YouTube (so the converter gets the best raw material to work with), and rip just the music, with no video content at all. That last one is somewhat dubious on the copyright side of things, but is very handy nonetheless.
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Subscribe to commentsDoug BDec 14th 2010 2:04PM
This site doesn't seem to be working. I sent a link and even after several HOURS no Ogg file and I looked at some of the other links in the queue and don't see any Ogg files - all the pages say "check back in a few minutes".
Youtube changing their code again which might have broken the tools the site uses to download the video?