Ned Storm

Here is the first of the funny pics:

The picture resolution of digital cameras is never as good and true to life as real life observation

I don’t think it’s right when sites like YouTube happily let you build their site content with videos and then do not allow people to download the videos.

Other sites have videos that you want to watch but the video streaming is too slow to enjoy the movie so it pauses as the video gets buffered. Or you would really like to save a video that you watched online in case you lost track of it or it got removed from a server.

Well, I found a nice free solution.

It starts with knowing the URL to the flash video file. You can find this via your Browser by View -> Page Source or a similar feature. Just look for some code regarding the flash player and a URL to a .flv file, video source or similar. So you eventually have a URL like: http://.. path … video.flv

Copy and paste this to NotePad to save it.

Now you need the software to download this file instead of just playing it back in your browser.

Thanks to Jcek Pazera in deepest Poland, you can download his software that does this job for free

I used the FLV to AVI converter software but found that the option to convert from FLV to MPEG gave the best video quality.

Also, make sure you specify a directory to save your converted video to since by default, the software will be downloaded to a temporary directory and saved to there as well.

To download the online flash video, simply enter the URL of the FLV video file into the file open dialog box and press the open button. Now the download starts but takes at least as long as the video takes to play back, so be patient.

Once it is downloaded, you should notice that the software blinks and becomes alive again. Now you can press the Convert button to convert the file from FLV to MPEG and save it to the destination directory that you previously selected.

Now you can play back the video and even edit it in suitable video editing software!