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Free Web services for downloading videos from video-sharing sites

clipnabberClipNabber allows you to download videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc by simply copying and pasting the URL. You’ll then get a link whereby you can download the file to your computer, iPod, iPhone, or any other media player. You’ll need to have an FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use!
zamzarZamzar is a free online file conversion web application that can not only convert videos off the Internet to AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MP4, MOV, etc, but also converts between audio, image, and document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your favorite format.
javimoyaVideoDownloader is a FireFox extension, but also allows you to paste in any URL from many sites such as Blip.TV, iFilm, and even social networking sites like MySpace. You can also download a free FLV player from their site to play the videos.
vixy.netVixy.net is another site that not only downloads online videos, but will also convert them AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don’t have to worry about downloading a FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format. (Same as Zamzar)
keepvidKeepVid also supports just about any video sharing site out there and the only difference about this site is that it also has a Top Videos section, so you can quickly download the most watched videos around the web.
mediaconverterMedia Converter is similar to ZamZar and vixy.net, but requires you to create an account and log in. Also, it seems like it only supports downloading and converting videos from YouTube. You can also download their video download program, but it only supports 5 sites.
heywatchHey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats including HD very quickly. The graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an FTP server or to online storage.
youtubexYoutubeX, as the name suggests, allows you to download videos from YouTube. Obviously, it only supports YouTube, but it has a couple of other features, such as the ability to play your video on the site and find popular videos quickly.
videoronkVideoRonk searches across multiple video-sharing sites such as Google Video, YouTube, MetaCafe and DailyMotion to find the most popular videos on each of them. You can either watch them on VideoRonk or download them to your computer in FLV format.
viddownloaderVidDownloader supports about 10 sites including the major ones and can download the videos in DivX AVI format. It’s very easy to use and can also extract only the audio from a video by choosing “Just Audio” on the download page. You don’t have to worry about having an FLV player since it converts the files to Windows format.
kcoolonlineAccording to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc. You’ll have to rename the files you download from YouTube with the .FLV extension at the end.
download videosThis site is a foreign site, but is easy to use and supports most of the major sites. You can also download a free FLV player off their site to play videos from YouTube.
downthisvideoDownThisVideo has a nice tag cloud at the top that you can click on to find videos quickly. From what I could tell, this site is mostly used by Japanese because the popular videos are mostly Anime, etc. However, you can still use it to download any YouTube video.
Video Downloaders for your DeSktop
If you prefer to have a desktop application that can download videos for you, check out the following list:

1. Orbit Downloader – This is by far the best desktop application I have seen for downloading any type of social media off the Internet. It can download videos and music from MySpace, YouTube, Pandora, Rapidshare, and lots more. It has a great interface and carries a very small foot print.

2. VDownloader – A small little application that can download videos from many sites and converts them to AVI or MPG format.
3. VideoDownloader – A useful FireFox add-on that supports more than 60 video sharing sites. It can also download other objects on a web page, such as movies, MP3s, flash files, and Quicktime movies directly.

4. Ares Tube – Another popular video download application that is very small and very easy to use. You can download videos in batches by entering URLs into a queue and Ares Tube can convert them into different formats such as iPod, MP4, MPG, etc.

4. YouTubeGrabber – Not a very fancy program, it simply takes your URL and downloads the file. No conversion is done and you’ll need to install an FLV player to watch the videos.

5. KeepV – Downloads videos from YouTube, MySpace, and Google and converts them to either MOV, 3GP, AVI, iPod, or PSP format.
Hopefully, using one of the tools above, you can download the video you want! I’m sure the arsenal of web services and desktop apps will grow, so this list will be updated as needed.



           
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     RTMP flash stream recorders for Windows

To record rtmp:// flash video .flv stream from embedded Adobe Flash Player may use the following RTMP Flash stream rippers:
  • Replay Media Catcher (Shareware/Windows) - can find rtmp:// stream URLs and automatically download RTMP flash video .FLV streams and RTMP .MP3 audio streams from embedded Adobe Flash player.
  • rtmpdump (Freeware/Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) is a console application that can dump RTMP and secure RTMPE streams.
  • get-flash-videos (Freeware/Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) is a console application that uses rtmpdump to download flash videos. Supports limited number of web-sites, but doens't need a flash player to be installed on your computer.
  • StreamTransport (and its clones Moyea's YouTube FLV Downloader, Foxreal YouTube Downloader) (Freeware/Windows) is flash video downloader supporting HTTP, RTMP and RTMPE streams.
  • CooJah + Blader (Freeware/Windows) software that allows to find HTTP, RTMP and RTMPE flash stream URLs and download them.
  • WM Recorder (Shareware/Windows) can find rtmp:// stream URLs and automatically download RTMP flash video .FLV streams and RTMP .MP3 audio streams from embedded Adobe Flash player. RTMP stream recording of WM Recorder is at the early stage, so there are some problems with recording live RTMP streams (like live video chats), recording RTMP through HTTP.
  • Jaksta (Shareware/Windows) can download and capture RTMP and HTTP videos from Adobe Flash Player
  • NetTransport (Shareware/Windows) can download RTMP and HTTP .FLV videos from Adobe Flash Player. Can find and reveal RTMP stream URLs.
  • Orbit Downloader (Shareware/Windows) can download RTMP flash videos. Its Grab++ can find and reveal RTMP stream URLs and Grab Pro can capture RTMP and HTTP video streams.
  • GetFLV (Shareware/Windows) can capture RTMP, RTMPE and HTTP .FLV videos from Adobe Flash Player.
  • Flash Stream Hunter (Shareware/Windows) can capture RTMP and HTTP videos from Adobe Flash Player
  • Rip Tiger (Shareware/Windows) can download RTMP and HTTP flash videos automatically.
  • Bit Recorder (Shareware/Windows) - automatically captures packets coming to your flash player. Supports RTMP and HTTP protocols, flash video .FLV files and .MP3 audio files.
  • FLV Recorder (Shareware/Windows) can capture packets coming to your Adobe Flash Player. It can save RTMP and HTTP .FLV flash video streams to HD, but it doesn't work with RTMP .MP3 streams.
  • Flv Downloader and its clone Flv Ripper (Shareware/Windows) can capture RTMP and HTTP .FLV videos from Adobe Flash Player.
  • Flazr (Freeware/Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) software that allows to download RTMP streams. Not user friendly. Requires Java 1.5+.
  • TubeMaster++ (Freeware/Windows, Linux) software that allows to download RTMP streams. Requires Java.
  • TuneBite Platinum (Shareware/Windows)
  • aTube Catcher (Freeware/Windows) can download HTTP, RTMP and capture videos from screen.
  • Freemake Video Downloader (Freeware/Windows) can download HTTP, RTMP flash video streams.
  • save2pc Pro + Extra Pack (Shareware/Windows) can download HTTP, RTMP streams from select popular web-sites.
  • E.M. Youtube Video Download tool (Shareware/Windows) can download RTMP and HTTP .FLV videos from Adobe Flash Player.
And of course you can record RTMP video streams from embedded flash player using screen video capture software, but RTMP Flash stream ripper like Replay Media Catcher, WM Recorder allow you to save such streams without any quality loss.

p.s. If you know how to find rtmp:// stream URLs with some other software, please let us know.


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