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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

How to capture and download Google videos?

Do you like watching online videos? Do you feel sometimes you really want to keep some of these in your Favorites? Do you want to enjoy Flash videos anytime offline. If the answer is yes, then just read on.
FLV has become a very popular video format, that’s why we can enjoy videos online with ease. Now if you want to save them in your computer or enjoy them offline, first of all, you must download them. You may ask how, don’t worry. It’s very easy to download Flash videos.
This tutorial introduces you how to download those videos and enjoy it offline, taking video.google.com as an example.

Software Required

Step 1 Make sure you have installed Mozilla Firefox and Web Video Downloader correctly.
After installation, you can see the icon of Web Video Downloader on the tool bar. It's more convenient to open the sidebar of Web Video Downloader by clicking on its icon.

Step 2 Click the icon of Web Video Downloader on Firefox tool bar to open the sidebar. You can also choose "Tools -> Web Video Downloader" to open the sidebar.

Step 3 Open the page containing the video you want to capture and download. Then an Interception Tip would pop up if the program detects any Flash video. Click "OK" to start downloading the FLV video file.

Click "Cancel" to cancel downloading. Then if you want to restore downloading, right-click the file in the sidebar and choose "Download...".

If you don't like Interception Tip to pop up always, there are two ways to temporarily disable the video downloader in Firefox without a restart of the browser.
Just right-click the icon "video" and uncheck the option "Video Capture Notification",

or open the sidebar and uncheck "Video capture notification" to disable the popup windows.

Step 4 Play downloaded flv with FLV Player.

OK! That’s all for how to download Flash videos. Just enjoy it with your own FLV player!

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