Why Bother Saving Videos from the Internet?

It is always a good idea to save web content that you like on your computer, as it may not be available in the future. This includes web 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
• You may want to put a video on your mobile phone or a media player
• 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 may want to convert the video to another format
• Many other reasons!

So, it's always a good idea to save videos that you like or which are important to you on your hard disk, flash, 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!

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, Google Video, and many other websites, blogs, news websites, portals, media-related websites, website that feature video reviews (CNet), etc!

What is WebM Video?

WebM is an emerging video format designed to provide royalty free high quality video compression in an open format for use with HTML5 video on the Internet. The project's development is sponsored by Google. A WebM file consists of VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams, in a container based on a profile of Matroska. The project releases WebM related software under a BSD License and all users are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license.

Useful Links

• YouTube - very popular video sharing resource - http://www.youtube.com
• Google Video - another popular video sharing site - http://video.google.com
• TV.com – Free Full Episodes & Clips, Show Info and TV Listings Guide – http://www.tv.com
• Dailymotion – Online Videos, Music, and Movies. Watch a Video Today! – http://www.dailymotion.com
• Hulu – Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free. – http://www.hulu.com

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 devices, there is no 100% guarantee that converted avi videos will be playable on such portable devices, as different devices have different support for codecs.

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All-in-One Video Downloader for Windows

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Flash FLV Video Downloader

Silverlight Video Downloader

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QuickTime Video Downloader

Real Media Video Downloader

Streaming Video Downloader (formerly FLV Video Downloader) is a small, light-weight computer program that lets you save Adobe Flash FLV, Silverlight, WebM, QuickTime, and RealMedia videos* from Internet websites like YouTube, Yahoo! Video, and others simply by watching them! It works with all modern browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and others. It lets you save multiple videos at the same time, and has hot keys for ease of access!

How It Works?

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 do want to keep the video, you can simply enter a file name and click Save. If you don't want to keep the video, you can click Cancel, and the already saved part will be deleted.

So, saving videos is super-easy: simply start watching one, and click Save - no need to find and paste URLs - everything is done automatically! And you can save videos in various formats: FLV, AVI, MP4 for Flash videos; WMV for Silverlight videos; WEBM for WebM videos; MOV for QuickTime videos; and RM for RealMedia videos.

Version 5 added automatic saving mode, where no prompt to save the video is shown, and the video is saved automatically to a specified folder. In this mode, you won't even notice the program is actually running and saving the videos in the background automatically while you are watching them in your browser!

Strictly speaking, you don't even need to watch the videos to save them! You can pause video playback inside your browser, 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, and that's all!

At any time you can always pause/resume video monitoring with a single click, giving you full control over when the program saves videos.

The program has extensive set of options, should you need to customize its behavior. For example, you can set it to start automatically with Windows.

Save Time & Money!

What's more is that only this product saves you both time and money, because it saves videos simultaneously with your browser - it wastes no bandwidth, saving you a bit of extra cash, which otherwise would be spent on extra bandwidth needed to download a video for a second time!

What's New?

Version 5.0

• Added support for saving WebM videos as WEBMs
• Added ability to automatically save all videos to a specified folder without displaying prompt
• Various performance optimizations
• UI tweaks
• More options

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

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

Version 2.1

• Performance improved
• Minor UI tweaks