You have many different programs and services at your disposal if you want to download videos from the popular video portal Youtube. There are web browser add-ons, bookmarklets and desktop applications that can all download Youtube videos. Some can only download one video at a time while others provide a more sophisticated solution to queue [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There is definitely no shortage when it comes to finding software programs and add-ons that allow a user to download videos that are shown on websites. The popularity of video portals like Youtube was probably the main reason why many software developers have created video capture software programs. Some of the most convenient ones are [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There are many media portals and other websites that offer free videos and music that users can watch and listen to. It ranges from Internet radio stations to music services such as Last.fm or Pandora to video websites which have become an excellent way of listening to music and watching videos. The music and mvoie [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Did you ever come upon a news story that sounded interesting enough to pursue? It happened today with the Reuter’s story that the Amazon streaming movies service was flawed and allowed users to download the entire movie without paying for it. Amazon.com is offering a video streaming service for more than 40000 videos on their [...]

Categories: Amazon, Music and Video, Software

Firefox users are flooded with add-ons that provide them with the option to download videos from video portals like Youtube but Internet Explorer users are somewhat left in the rain. The Youtube File Hack Tool tries to change this by offering Microsoft Internet Explorer users a way to download videos from Youtube easily. This plugin [...]

Categories: Browsing, ie, Software

I would have never discovered the excellent Download Helper add-on for Firefox if I would not have tried to download a video from a website with Grab++ without success. A quick research revealed that the Download Helper add-on was able to discover the video links for that site in question which would allow me to download the videos from that website.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Music and Video

MPAA – Motion Picture Association of America – compiled a list of legal movie websites and published it on their website with the title Legal options to Pirates. I’m not sure if they mean that non-Pirates may not use those services, guess it’s just aimed at Pirates. They have divided the list into Legal Downloads and Buy or Rent Movies.

Categories: Music and Video

Did you know that you can download mp3, video and other files from almost any website with just a little effort ? All you need is Firefox, the Firefox extension Firebug and a download manager. This knowledge is especially helpful if the tools you normally use to download videos or mp3 does not work on a website.

Firebug is actually a great web development extension for Firefox which does also list all objects that are loaded with their full url on the server. I suppose you are already seeing where this is going, huh ? You just have to take a look at the objects and filter out the largest files which are most of the time the media files. Copy the url from that file and paste it into your download manager to download the mp3, video or other media file.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Hacking, Music and Video

All of my friends hate the flv format that Youtube and other social video sites such as dailymotion and break use to show video content on their websites. Most download managers, like the Firefox extension Video Downloader, offer the flv files as downloads which most multimedia players do not support at all. You could add a flv plugin to add flash video support to your media player but there is an easier solution to this.

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