Have you ever been on youtube, vimeo, or your favorite video website and wanted to a particular video on your computer? Well I have a solution for you! The solution have for you is FIREFOX and a FIREFOX ADDON! For those of y’all that don’t know firefox has some of the best addons for web browser ever! An alternative downloader if you don’t have firefox is the ant toolbar. This toolbar works for firefox and internet explorer.
The addon we are going to focus on is Video DownloadHelper. Video DownloadHelper is a easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.
How to get it
If you have firefox installed, all you have to do is go this link and click add to firefox. After doing so it will install the addon for you and ask for you to restart your browser and you will be able to officially download videos.
Making it work for you
First you need to Tools > Addons > Extensions (It’s a Tab) > DownloadHelper > Options
After doing this go to General > Appearance Tab
Check all the options that you want (I checked all of them).
Next, go directly to the location of the video you wish to download and play the video. After doing this you will see some animation for the video download helper icon and don’t click the icon exactly. If you do you will see all of the media websites it supports but click the arrow right beside it and you will name of the video you want and click on that. After doing so firefox will ask you where you want to save it and will begin downloading it.
How to View It
One problem you will have is that probably won’t be able to see the video with the tools you have on your computer. So how will you view it? Use VLC Media Player! VLC Media Player is one the most flexible media players that plays any format of video and is FREE! IF you wish to explore and download it I suggest you go here. If there any other questions leave a comment.
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Hello,
Can i get a one small photo from your blog?
You should do the process with screenshots. All the verbage gets confusing. Screenshots would clear all that up.
Hi, interesting post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for sharing. I will definitely be coming back to your site. Keep up the good work
Yeah there are other methods as well…I have mentioned some more in my blog…visit http://swordfish1987.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/how-to-download-youtube-videos/
Thank you………….
But i found “Zillatube” program download video quickly, and also easy to play those videos too.
found it at http://www.zillatube.com
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