C#: Downloading video from YouTube

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Hi! I wish to download a video from YouTube and then extract its audio. Can anyone point me to some C# code to download a video? Thanks!

UPDATE: For clarification purposes, I already know how to extract audio from a .FLV file like these. Thanks!

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