Every time I see things like this a part of my brain wonders, "How would these people describe what they're doing in sprint tasks and give estimates in points."
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 was only vaguely aware of this thanks to graphics programming, where write-combined access to GPU memory means you'll be more than twice as fast by writing entire cachelines without holes (because reading write-combined cachelines is effectively uncached? Horribly slow.)
Documentation for 3D rendering APIs tend to have warnings about this as a result, and performance talks tend to cover it as well. "memcpy the (cachline aligned and write combined) site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure"