Download YouTube and FLV Videos
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!
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December 19th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Check out http://www.nirsoft.net to download VideoCacheView which helps you find out where video files have been temporarily stored on your PC.
I found that some files do not have an extension but if you copy the file as something.flv they can play back as an FLV.
If you find the location of the temporary internet files and sort them by size and date in the view options of the folder you can find the FLV file that you are after.
Since these are streamed over time and temporary, let the video play through and immediately go find it and then copy the file to somewhere else before it gets deleted.