I use ClipGrab for off-line viewing of Flash-based movies; what do you use?

I didn't want to install Adobe Flash Player on my Ubuntu netbook so I asked in a Q&A site how to view Flash-based videos off-line and ClipGrab came as one of the top suggestions. After using it for more than two months now, I write here my (trivial) experience with said application.

It's not in the official Ubuntu repos so installing it was accomplished by following this here guide which took close to about 5 minutes. Once installed, it can be found under Applications > Internet menu (or was it Applications > Sound & Video? I am not sure as I have unconsciously removed it from Ubuntu). Anyhoo, it starts up and displays a simplistic GUI (similar to the Windows GUI below).

This screenshot is from the Windows 7 version of ClipGrab

The first input field in the Downloads tab is where you put the web link of the video you want to download. The Format drop-down I keep with the Original setting. The Quality drop-down varies, depending on the video; sometimes it has a 720p option but most times it's just 360p.

The first time I used it, I tried downloading a 720p video. After it finished, I tried playing it and it played okay from the beginning of the video file up until about 75% then it displayed a gray colored blank screen and playback (i.e. pressing forward button on the player) was unresponsive. Bottom line, video was corrupted. Downloading the video again in 360p quality seemed to make the same video play 100% so I am thinking it might be the ffmpeg encoder that's at fault with my Ubuntu installation. But having installed it in Windows and using it sparingly, there seemed to be no problems with downloading 720p quality vids.

Conclusion

It's a good tool if you plan to download videos off of YouTube and other known streaming video sites and you don't want to install the Adobe Flash plugin on your Ubuntu machine.

• But, yes, you have to install a client program. 
• And yes there are other tools which can be added as an add-on to the Firefox browser (but these add-ons are only capable of downloading from YouTube or need to load the flash video first in the browser before the file can be downloaded (read: scavenge the internet history folders for vid files). 
• And yes, if in Ubuntu, you need to download the file first before being able to watch it so it can take twice the time it takes to load the video online.

But to each his/her own, right?