One of the things that you notice when you run a browser without Adobe Flash is that the majority of videos won’t play anymore. While that’s more or less obvious, considering that Flash is the technology that most video portals use to stream the videos to the user, it is a little known fact that is has a side effect on many video download add-ons, plugins and extensions.
A lot of add-ons that have been created for the purpose of downloading videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook or Dailymotion stop working, because of the missing Flash plugin.
The solution? Either hunt for an add-on that works despite the lack of Flash, or use a bookmarklet like that offered on Deturl for all video downloading needs.
A bookmarklet has two major advantages over add-ons and extensions: First, It does not need to run in the background. That usually saves some memory, disk space and maybe even some cpu cycles depending on how the add-on functions. Second, it is browser independent and compatible with all modern web browsers.
The Deturl bookmarklet supports many of the most popular portals including Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook, Vimeo or Gametrailers, and yes, even a few adult video sites are supported by it.
To start, users need to drag and drop the bookmarklet offered on the Deturl website to their bookmarks, or one of the browser toolbars. It is usable from that moment on. Now it is possible to click on the bookmarklet whenever a video page is visited. The bookmarklet tries to recognize the video on the page. For some video portals like Youtube or Vimeo, download links are displayed on the same page in a small stripe on top of the screen. Depending on the video site, one or multiple formats are displayed for download. Videos are linked as direct downloads, and users need to right-click the videos and select save from the context menu to save the videos to the local hard drive.
For some video sites, the stripe is not available. It will instead redirect the request to a page on the developer website. The page containing the video is analyzed thoroughly, and download links are displayed if videos are found. This is the case for Gametrailers for instance.
It can also happen that the video is not supported by the service. In this case no download links are displayed.
The bookmarklet detects videos on third party sites as well. Even multiple videos on third party sites are supported. In this case, a selection of all supported and detected videos is displayed on the website of the service, giving the user the choice to select one or multiple for download.
The bookmarklet is compatible with a lot of sites, and most users should find it sufficient for all their video downloading needs. Only users who want to download videos from unsupported sites need to use a different software to download videos from those sites as well. (via Caschy)
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Irgendwie kommen nie deine Trackbacks an…
Ich füge die nicht extra in den Artikel ein, kann das der Grund sein?
Normalerweise nicht. Da sollte der Link von alleine kommen. Vielleicht deine Trackbackfunktion defekt? Haben viele, wenn ich das bei Blogparaden usw sehe. Kurioserweise habe ich es oft, dass Links deiner anderen Seiten ankommen. Muss also nur an dieser Seite liegen. Strange.
I use Keepvid
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I just use Tunebite to download and save videos from Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook, Vimeo to my hard disk, it’s easy to use and it can also convert streaming videos to avi, wmv, mp4 or some other formats I can use on my mobile devices:
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Plus Tunebite also has a menu to configure individual Audio and Video profiles depending frame rate, frames-per-second, resolution etc. to help setup media file perfectly for each mobile devices and to save space with smaller files.