Saving your favorite videos from video-sharing websites such as YouTube, Google videos and many others, basically involves downloading them on your computer. Downloading the videos on your PC lets you watch them at any time when you want, irrespective of whether or not you are connected to the internet. This article will tell you how to save videos from the internet with the use of various computer applications and downloadable software.
There are three basic methods of saving videos from the internet. You can save videos by downloading them from the websites, using software or by using Firefox. We will look at all of these methods one by one.
Web-sites
- If you are in the habit of watching videos on YouTube, you might have experienced the frustration of not being able to save the videos with a simple right-click as they are in the FLV mode.
- Videos in FLV format are displayed well in almost all browsers as it allows for highly compressed streaming and is therefore the most commonly used format.
- One of the easiest and the most popular methods of saving FLV videos is with the help of KeepVId.com.
- It is a browser-based download helper website, which lets you save your videos without having to download any software.
- To use KeepVid, you need to first select the video you wish to save and then copy paste the URL of this video on the KeepVid webpage.
- Once you have pasted the URL, KeepVid will ask you to change the file’s suffix so that you download video.flv instead of video.htm.
- Once you have downloaded the FLV video, download the FLV player and watch you video on this.
- If you don’t want to download the FLV player, then convert it into another more usable format such as Mp3 through a suitable converter.
Firefox Extension
- Mozilla Firefox enables you to capture online videos easily and is therefore preferred by most users.
- Another advantage of using Firefox is that it works on both Windows as well as Mac.
- Firefox has a very good extension called the Video Downloader, which makes downloading and saving videos on your PC easy and quick.
- Download this extension and after installing you will see its icon on your browser at the bottom right side.
- Now, open the webpage of the video to be saved and click on the downloader icon.
- A pop-up window will appear on your screen, which will tell you to right-click on a download link and then change the suffix.
- You can also left-click on this link so that you won’t have to change the suffix.
- Now for viewing the file on Mac, you can use the iSquint program, which is free and gives you unlimited use.
- To use iSquint, simply drag and drop your saved video in this program and start watching.
- There is no free software available for Windows users. However, you can use CinemaForge, which is a good tool for watching these videos.
Other software
- If you want to download and save videos from multiple websites then the two programs that you will find to be of most help are SnapzPro X 2 for Mac users and SnagIt for those using Windows.
- These programs are costlier than others; however they are more versatile than others.
- There are many other web applications that will help you to download and save your favorite videos from the internet. These are:
- ClipNabber – it only requires you to copy-paste the URL of the video to be saved.
- Zamzar – It converts videos from the internet to other formats such as Mp4, MP3, MPEG etc.
- YouTubeX – As the name suggest, this will allow you to save only those videos that are available on YouTube.
- You can search for many more software and applications for saving videos from the internet on Google.
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