Download Flash Videos from YouTube, Google Video, and Most Other Video Hosting Streams
The videos from online viral video hosting and sharing sites such as YouTube and Google Video are not downloadable. The video will be streaming directly to the embedded player on the web page, without any downloadable link to save the video locally for offline viewing or for transferring/synchronizing to portable media player.
Javimoya’s Video Downloader
Javimoya’s Video Downloader helps you to download online videos directly to your computer, right from the web page itself, without any installation, and works in all operating system and computer. What Video Downloader does is, it extracts the hidden links to the media files that embedded in the HTML code, and displays the downloadable links for you to download the videos. All you need to do is just select the video site’s tab, input the URL of the video (appears on the address bar of the web page where video will play on it) which you want to download into the text box, and then just follow the download instructions.
Video Downloader supports a lot of video hosting sites, including major video sharing sites such as YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, IFILM and Dailymotion, plus (some still in working) Angry Alien, ArtistDirect, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, DevilDucky, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, LuluTV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, PcPlanets, Pixparty, Putfile, REVVER, Sharkle, StreetFire, That Video Site, The One Network, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, VIDNET.com, Vimeo, vSocial, Web62.com and ZippyVideos.
Download with Video Downloader. More information at Video Downloader blog.
VideoDownloader Extension for Firefox
An extension for Fifefox web browser to make extraction and downloading of embeded video easy.
KeepVid - Want it, Keep it
Another similar service to enable video addicts to download and keep the videos is KeepVid. Exactly the same user interface with Ravi’s Video Downloaders, KeepVid has more video sites where you can grab the videos. (KeepVid claims Spanish blog Javimoya copied KeepVid website and functionality).
The video sharing sites that KeepVid able to process includes Angry Alien, ArtistDirect, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, Current TV, Dailymotion, DevilDucky, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Google Video, Grinvi, Grouper, iFilm, LuluTV, Metacafe, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, PcPlanets, Pixparty, Putfile, REVVER, Sharkle, StreetFire, That Video Site, The One Network, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, VIDNET.com, Vimeo, vSocial, Web62.com, YouTube and ZippyVideos.
Download with KeepVid.
fM Google, Youtube & Ifilm Video Downloader
Another alternative is to use fM Google, Youtube & Ifilm Video Downloader, although as the title suggested, it’s only limited to download videos hosted on IFILM, Google Video and YouTube. The site will also decode and extract the actual download links to the videos once you input the URL of the page where video normally loaded.
Download videos with fM Google, Youtube & Ifilm Video Downloader.
Greasemonkeying with Google Video and YouTube
If you use Mozilla Firefox, you will be able to download clips to your computer whether for offline browsing or transcoding/syncing to portable devices with Joshua Kinberg’s scripts and plug-ins for Greasemonkey extension for Firefox.
There are 2 scripts available to download from Google Video and YouTube:
Google Video Getter
YouTube To Me
Greasemonkey extension for Firefox needs to be install before using the scripts. After installing Greasemonkey, relaunch Firefox, then right-click the links above and select “Install User Script”. After installing, a prominent download link will appear on the top of web page whenever you browse to a Google Video or YouTube video page.
A small utility ables to download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace, DailyMotion, Pornotube, and many other similar sites, and then convert and save them in AVI or MPG format.
Download YouTube flash videos by simply adding a “kiss”.
aTube Catcher or YouTube Video Catcher
All-in-one program to download and convert videos from YouTube, XTube, Pornotube, DailyMotion, MySpace, Google Video, Yahoo!, Stage6, and also any flash video files.
Download video from popular video sharing sites by just one-click on bookmark or favorite, without the need to go through third party website.
Manual Steps for Videos Played in Microsoft Media Player
If you found a video that plays directly in Microsoft Media Player, try to right click on the movie display screen and then select properties. The last property - Location - will contain URL link to the media file. If the URL ends with .wmv, .mpg or other extension, except .asx, the video or the media file can be downloaded by any download manager by using the link.
If the link ended with .asx, .wvx or other similar extension, open with notepad and find the line starting with mms:. The mss: link can be downloaded by using FlashGet.
If the video is embedded in a web page, then click on View -> Source (in IE), Page Source (in Firefox), and search for video files extensions such as .mwv, .mov, .mov and etc.
Manual Steps for Videos Played in Quicktime and Real Player
Videos and media files in .swf or .rm format, try to use URL Snooper. URL Snooper is a program to help users locate the urls of audio and video files so that they can be recorded.
You can also use the View Source Code method to search for the link to videos yourself.
Notes
Most videos will be in the .mwv, .mov, .avi, .mp4, .swf or .flv format. To play a .flv media file, you will need FLV Player, or VLC Player.
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October 7th, 2007 01:36
download video from youtube
http://techtracker.info
October 1st, 2007 09:36
Freeman
May 13th, 2007 19:09
Hey, there’s a Chinese site called youku, can any of the programs rip videos from there?
– I found a tool calls orbitdownloader
– it works fine with the Chinese site
– youku. It’s also free, go download it
– and if it doesn’t work under Firefox,
– then try it in IE. Good luck.
September 29th, 2007 01:26
For all-in-one solutions……..
Best to use “Zillatube” - It basically downloads video in a zip, plays and even convert those videos for other players.
Get it at http://www.zillatube.com
August 16th, 2007 09:14
Yo utilizo este que esta muy bien.
tiene para descargar videos de youtube,metacafe y dailymotion.
http://kode.es/kodexplayer/kodexplayer.exe
August 7th, 2007 16:49
Does anybody know how i can download videos of Myspace??
July 24th, 2007 23:43
check this guys
July 20th, 2007 02:13
How would I go about downloading this one?
http://gigglesugar.com/410617
The only url I can come up with is:
http://www.glumbert.com/system/player/player.swf?scale_it=1&no_skin_menu=1&popup=1&video=http://www.glumbert.com/system/player/app/config.php%3fmedia=anchorlaughfall.flv&mode=embed
No extensions or anything.
July 17th, 2007 13:23
One-click download YouTube Video, Google Video…and Flash swf
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/web-video-downloader-firefox/
Can quickly capture and download web videos, streaming Flash videos, embedded Flash animations, Flash games, etc. from internet. Help you collect fabulous Flash files and Web videos with ease.
July 12th, 2007 19:34
Amaze Flv Downloader, of couse free.
http://www.AmazeBrowser.com/flvdownload/
June 23rd, 2007 22:08
Or you could just go to http://www.videocodezone.com/conversion.php.
Specify the URL and output type(my favorite is MP4 for IPOD of course)
and it spits out that file. Pretty cool. Only thing is they support
YouTube and DailyMotion only at this point so hopefully they will have
more video sites in future.
June 17th, 2007 08:58
view and download full video in 1 web
http://www.youtube.here.de
is goodddddddddddd
June 5th, 2007 10:22
http://rapidshare.com/files/35021661/200_Music_Video_Links.rar
Here-s 200 video clips good quality video
June 4th, 2007 05:06
Hi dadang,
You can download this videos with Vidoho (www.vidoho.com/download.php)
For example:
Your Adress:http://www.dailymotion.com/galeribidadari/video/xbn4o_bluen-blue-tease Flv:http://www.dailymotion.com/get/7/320×240/flv/543192.flv?key=6e0c98b9b450204b44b510ba2df135b012c51db
Your Adress: http://www.dailymotion.com/rated/HasslineXpress/video/xwx0l_bea-flora-in-stimulation Flv:http://www.dailymotion.com/get/13/320×240/flv/1535781.flv?key=b3f37e67f0bb58f889883aa930c30f1512c51dc
June 3rd, 2007 21:45
Is it working for all video? Or is it only working for some video formats? I wonder why i cant download this video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/rated/HasslineXpress/video/xwx0l_bea-flora-in-stimulation
http://www.dailymotion.com/galeribidadari/video/xbn4o_bluen-blue-tease
Videodownloader,orbit and keepvid doesnt work on them @_@
What kind of format are these?
How can i download them?
thx b4
June 1st, 2007 01:43
[...] how chewy will these compressed YouTube videos look on your HD TV? I’ve already ripped a bunch of music videos off YouTube, converted them to MPEG-4 videos and saved them in iTunes. Honestly, the Flash encoded YouTube [...]
May 28th, 2007 20:40
I still can’t save them using that url below me, can someone help?
May 14th, 2007 08:55
http://www.vidoho.com/download.php ile yaklaşık 40 video sitesinden sorunsuz olarak videoları indirebiliyorsunuz… Kanal Listesi: blip.tv , break, clipfish ,collegehumor , current.tv , dailymotion ,google , grouper , ifilm , izlesene , liveleak , livevideo , metacafe , myspace , myvideo , pikniktube ,revver,rutube.ru , sharkle, stupidvideos, teachertube, trilulilu.ro, twango, veoh, videa.hu, video.qq.com, vidivodo, vidmax, viewurself, vimeo, vmix, vsocial, vume, yahoo, youku, youtube, zippyvideos
Yakın bir zamanda convert hizmetide sunacaklar…
May 13th, 2007 19:09
Hey, there’s a Chinese site called youku, can any of the programs rip videos from there?
May 10th, 2007 18:06
Download and save YouTube Video as AVI format:
http://www.naevius.com/youtube_converter.htm
May 10th, 2007 03:39
I use http://www.savetube.com to save youtube videos.
May 9th, 2007 00:31
http://feelingtea.com/decode/google/
This site will help you to get the direct link to the videos so you can easily download them. Very easy. Very fast ! Highly recommend !
Now it can get link from many sites such as:
video.google.com, youtube.com, metacafe.com, ifilm.com, veoh.com, music.com, break.com, liveleak.com, Bolt.com, dailymotion.com, Vimeo.com, streetfire.net, lulu.tv, blip.tv, vSocial.com, grouper.com, current.tv, vidilife.com, stage6.divx.com, video.Animeepisodes.net, Amvspace.com, Zippyvideos.com, Stupidvideos.com, Sharkle.com, Vmix.com, Dorks.com, Hiphopdeal.com, nhacso.net, Sonic.vn, 24h.com.vn, clip.vn, nhacviet.vietnamnet.vn, ngoisaoblog.com,
May 8th, 2007 14:39
[...] video websites do not allow you to download the video directly. There are sites & instructions that let you do [...]
April 24th, 2007 17:25
hello iwant fast download software
April 23rd, 2007 22:58
[...] Download Flash Videos from YouTube, Google Video, and Most Other Video Hosting Streams » My Digital… The videos from online viral video hosting and sharing sites such as YouTube and Google Video are not downloadable. The video will be streaming directly to the embedded player on the web page, without any downloadable link to save the video locally for offline viewing or for transferring/synchronizing to portable media player. [...]
April 6th, 2007 00:50
Old News ‘yawn’
http://www.net-xfer.com/default.htm
or if ya don’t like nags get older one at:
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page9.html#Net Transport
give it a list of say, 10 good proxies and it’ll even exceed your isp’s bandwidth as well as the servers, allows you to get stuff faster than its served, if that becomes a problem, just check “obey speed limits”.
Even handles Real Player.
Vista, UPnP, ASFs > 4GB etcetcetc
Does scripting too for newer variations or embedding in local/remote pages…
http://www.xi-soft.com/COM.htm
There is NOTHING I haven’t been able to ‘grab’ with it.
saves all ur links, puts the downloads away 4 u. etcetcetc
rips entire websides or ‘partial spiders’, just grab zips or wmv or gif or WHATEVER.
Post back here if you find it duz something I
didn’t mention as I’m all earz.