Firefox extension: VideoDownloader does just what it says

VideoDownloader is a slick Firefox extension that allows you to save content from websites, including embedded videos at sites like YouTube. The extension adds a small icon to Firefox's status bar that, when clicked, offers a pop-up window with a download link of the actual file you want. Simple and painless. The one catch I've run into so far: the files from some Flash-embedded sites like YouTube are .FLV, and while I have the latest Flash player installed, I can't seem to find it, and not even Safari will open these with a File > Open command. Other than that, this extension has worked great for grabbing all sorts of media so far.

The list of sites this extension works with is lengthy, but really it should allow you to grab embedded content from just about anywhere. Unless, of course, the site has already been turned on to haxies like this and they've already launched countermeasures. Until then, enjoy.

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David Chartier

#8: Funny you ask, as I just uninstalled it today. It's called Google Calendar Notifier, I think, and it's currently at version 2.1 (you can get it from Mozilla's directory). Problem was I could never get it to work. I also figured that, since I have all my notifications emailed and I live inside my email anyways, I don't need Firefox also on my back about an event.

May 22 2006 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luke Macyszyn

Hey Dave,

What is that Google Calendar icon/plugin?

May 22 2006 at 3:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Karsten

try this bookmarklet for safari...it's like the extension but just as a bookmarklet :-)

javascript:void(open("http://videodownloader.net/get/?url="%20+%20escape(location)%20+%20"&orig=ffp&ver=1",'VD','fullscreen=no,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,directories=no,location=no,width=800,height=400'))

good luck
Karsten

May 22 2006 at 12:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Askar

WOW, very nice, is there such a thing for Safari?

May 22 2006 at 11:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sinsigns

You can also try a flash video player like http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player . With this you can play the videos on your machine and also offer them as streams on your website.

May 22 2006 at 11:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

arthur

...and, VLC 0.8.5 will play the FLV files from YouTube without any conversion.

May 22 2006 at 11:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ken

You can't just open an FLV video file with Flash Player.
Instead, you can use VLC player, which has played any weird codec/format combo.

(By the way, since this is my very first post, great site!)

May 22 2006 at 11:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ultim8fury

FFmpegX also now deals with FLV video.

May 22 2006 at 11:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

the1bigboy

iSquint coverts FLV files to Quciktime files quite speedy

May 22 2006 at 11:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply