I use Pocket to save text to read later. Sadly, I don't know any similar program/service for video. I would love to have a service where I could send videos from youtube or a file or a torrent, and it would save the oldest one on my phone, so that I can watch it offline on my phone when going on the train.
If someone makes this, I'm def willing to pay you $5/month for it, and I'm sure many others are as well.
You might look at youtube red, which is included with the google music streaming service. Will let you download videos to your mobile device for offline viewing. Combined with your youtube "to watch" list, it works pretty well. Unfortunately doesn't support an "add on desktop -> auto download mobile" workflow.
Effectively you want to turn arbitrary link submissions into a podcast feed of their multimedia (probably rehosted). Then you could reuse a normal podcast client to configure when items are automatically downloaded to your phone, do playback, maintain played-status, etc. Podcasts aren't necessarily audio-only - there are video podcasts and video-capable podcast clients out there.
Couldn't you just sync a folder with your phone (via dropbox or a thousand other apps) and just save whatever webpage the video is on to that folder. If you do it your way, you'd have to worry about text that's associated with the video that the user may or may not want.
He means offline viewing of online videos in a convenient way, like iOS Safari "Reading List" (Saves pages for offline viewing), or Pocket, which does much of the same but for text.
I use Pocket to save text to read later. Sadly, I don't know any similar program/service for video. I would love to have a service where I could send videos from youtube or a file or a torrent, and it would save the oldest one on my phone, so that I can watch it offline on my phone when going on the train.
If someone makes this, I'm def willing to pay you $5/month for it, and I'm sure many others are as well.