Streaming Video Downloader - Save Flash FLV, Silverlight, QuickTime, Real videos from sites like YouTube

Save videos automatically, no need to do anything!

Streaming Video Downloader automatically detects when you begin watching new video in your browser, and begins saving it immediately, at the same time asking you whether or not you want to save this video. If you do, you just click Save, and if you don't, you click Cancel, and the program will stop downloading it. That's it! You don't have to look for URLs and paste them somewhere, like you do with other downloaders; simply watch and save simultaneously!

Save Flash FLV, Silverlight, QuickTime, Real Videos!

Nowadays the most popular video format on the Web is Flash video served as FLV/MP4, however other types of videos are also common, including: Microsoft Silverlight served as Windows Media Video - WMV, Apple QuickTime served as MOV, and RealMedia served as RM/RAM. Streaming Video Downloader lets you save all these types of videos*!

Saves High Quality videos from YouTube and other sites as MP4

YouTube and some other video websites now offer the ability to watch videos in High Quality (HQ) mode. The physical dimensions of the video, color depth, and other settings are significantly better in HQ modes. This is why you should save HQ version of a video if it is available. Streaming Video Downloader, starting from version 3.0, lets you easily save even HQ videos. This works exactly the same as with regular FLV videos, the only difference being that HQ videos are saved as files with mp4 extension (since they are MPEG-4 type videos, and not flash videos).

Supports ALL versions of ALL Browsers

As long as you can watch a particular video in your browser, you can save it with Streaming Video Downloader! Thus, the program supports Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1+, Google Chrome, Opera 8+, Safari, Netscape, and others!

Saves videos from protected websites

The problem with url-based downloaders is that they simply do not work for password-protected videos and websites! Only Streaming Video Downloader can save such protected videos. Even more so, it can save streaming videos, or videos whose links expire too quickly! Remember, as long as you can watch a video in your browser, then Streaming Video Downloader can save it for you!

Supports 99.9% websites that feature videos

In great majority of cases, as long as the website offers videos in the video formats supported by the program, you can save it!

No bandwidth wasted!

Videos are saved as you watch them (in fact, you don't even have to watch them per se - all you really need to do is load a page with video on it). This is especially useful for older dial-up connections, or for videos that are slow to download.

Does not get in your way!

The program silently runs in the background, monitoring incoming Internet traffic for flash videos. Yet it is easily accessible from system tray in the lower-right corner of your screen should you need to see the main window.

Very light-weight on system resources

What's really nice about this product is that it requires only very few system resources. In fact it requires so few, you won't even notice it's actually running!

Make your saved videos accessible to portable devices

You can easily save videos in avi format, provided you have the right codecs installed, so you can watch them on various portable devices, like iPods, smart phones, media players, etc.

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Why would you want to save video from the Internet?

It is always a good idea to save web content that you like on your computer, as it may not always be available in the future. This includes flash videos. Below are some of the reasons why you may consider saving videos on your computer:

You can access saved videos later at any time, even if you are not connected to the Internet
The video might be removed from the web in the future
The video might be edited, with the content you liked taken out or changed
You may want to use video content in your own presentations or videos
You would like to be able to watch videos on portable devices, such as phones, PDAs, media players that do not allow you to watch videos from the Internet directly.
You may want to convert the video to another format
Many other reasons!

So, it's always good to save videos that you like or are important for you on your hard drive, or other media, so you can always access it later no matter what might happen to the original publication. Streaming Video Downloader is the only tool you'll ever need to save videos!

How does Streaming Video Downloader operate?

Streaming Video Downloader operates by monitoring your Internet connection for incoming video content. When it sees that there is an incoming video content, it will prompt you to save that video. You can save videos in various formats: FLV, AVI, MP4 for Flash videos; WMV for Silverlight Videos; MOV for QuickTime videos; and RM for RealMedia videos.

What is Flash Video?

Flash Video is a very popular video format on the Internet. More and more videos are made available on the Internet in this format every day on many popular websites such as YouTube and Google Video.

What websites use Flash Video?

Every day more and more websites start using Flash Video to deliver video content to their visitors. The websites include dedicated video sharing websites, such as YouTube and Google Video, blogs, news websites, media-related websites, website that feature video reviews, such as CNet, and many, many other kinds of websites use it!

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Technical Information

Please note that the product does not currently support RTSP and RTMP protocols (videos streamed in these protocols will not be detected). Support for these protocols should be added in the near future.

AVI conversion is available for FLV format only. While in most cases avi videos can be played on modern portable media players, or cell phones, there is no 100% guarantee that converted avi videos will be playable on such portable devices, as different devices have different support for codecs.

What Is It?

Streaming Video Downloader (formerly FLV Video Downloader) is a small, light-weight computer program that lets you save different kinds of videos from Internet websites like YouTube, Yahoo! Video, and others to your PC as you watch them in your browser.

The program supports Adobe Flash, Silverlight, QuickTime, and RealMedia videos* and all modern browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.

Whenever you begin watching a video in your browser, the program will automatically start saving it in the background, at the same time asking you if you want to keep the video. If you want to keep the video, you can simply eneter a file name and click Save; and if you don't want to keep the video, you can click Cancel, and the already saved part will be deleted. Of course you can always pause monitoring for videos, in case you don't need to save a video you are about to watch. So, saving videos is super-easy with this program: simply start watching one, and click Save! No need to find and paste URLs (like in numerous browser gadgets/widgets) - everything is done automatically!

What's more is that it saves you time and bandwidth, because videos are saved as you watch them in a browser. Strictly speaking, you don't even need to watch them - you can pause the playback and a video will be downloaded in the background - just make sure you don't close or navigate away from the webpage that has video you want to save!

The program features hot key access for ease of operation, and simultaneous downloads so you can save multiple videos at the same time.

Flv to avi conversion is also available, so you can watch flash videos on portable devices*. It is easily configurable, and can, for example, be started automatically with Windows.

Main Window Screenshot

You won't see main window often, as it is hidden by default. But should you need it, you can always make it visible by double-clicking on the small program icon in the lower-right corner of your screen.

New in Version 4.0

Added support for saving Silverlight videos as WMVs
Added support for saving Apple QuickTime videos as MOVs
Added support for saving RealMedia videos as RMs/RAMs
Added support for video filtering based on file size
Added German as one of User Interface languages
Product renamed to Streaming Video Downloader
Various performance optimizations
UI tweaks
More options

New in Version 3.0

Added support for saving High Quality (HQ) videos from YouTube and other sites as MPEG-4 videos (mp4 files)
Added ability to filter-out unwanted flv videos based on their length and size, so they are not saved
Numerous performance improvements
Several UI tweaks
More options

New in Version 2.1

Performance improved
Minor UI tweaks

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