OK thanks; watching videos on this device is not a priority for me, so at your leasure...

Maemish: It should be fairly trivial to write a shell script that can be triggered with a hotkey. No need for a GUI. Though I haven't looked into hotkeys on N900 yet.

The good thing about youtube-dl is that it updates constantly (really important in the cat-and-mouse game esp. YT a.k.a googlevideo like to play) and works with a gazillion sites, audio and video...

I feared as much.
- I do remember your friendly reminder from some other thread, but for me it's important to get familiar with Maemo itself and Fremantle and its current problems now if I plan to use Leste later.