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My post on downloading videos from video-sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Metcafe, etc. using Real Player has become more popular as it was an easy way and supported almost all video-sharing websites.  When I learned this feature in Real Player, I have ignored every other trick and stick to Real Player to download the videos.

Now downloading these streaming videos has become even more simple and easier with FlashGot.  Install this tiny plugin in Firefox and you are done.  Now go to any streaming video site and play the video and you will see a video frame icon in the status bar prompting you that it has got the link to the video.

Actually, FlastGot is used to download multiple files from the webpages at a single click.  FlashGot sends all the files and images in a webpage to an external download manager or to the Firefox’s internal download manager.  This video downloading facility is an extra feature it has.

FlashGot instantly recognizes the streaming video we are playing in the browser and shows a video frame icon in the status bar.  When you hover the mouse onto it, it shows available formats of the video along with the FLV file.  Just click on one of the format you need.  Keep in mind that FLV files downloaded using FlashGot will not have the extension.  You can just drag and drop it into VLC Player or Wimpy to play the video.

Get FlashGot and start downloading your favorite videos.

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Few days after writing the post “Write Orkut scraps in Indian languages” using Greasemonkey script, Google has introduced that feature and now it is inbuilt in Orkut. Now, I will show you the way to embed Yahoo emoticons into your Orkut scraps. A little emoticon can express your feeling much better than words.

For this, we need, as usual, Firefox, GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox, and Yahoo Emoticons User Script.

Read my previous post about installing GreaseMonkey in Firefox. If you know how to install an extension in Firefox, just click here and install GreaseMonkey.  Restart the Firefox and click here to get the user script, which GreaseMonkey instantly recognizes and comes up with a window asking for confirmation. Click “Install” and you are done. Now go to your scrapbook and you will see Yahoo and MSN emoticons appearing below the scrap box. Whenever you need an emoticon to be attached to the scrap, just click on the appropriate icon and a link will be inserted into your scrap that turns into an emoticon when it is posted. Enjoy!!!

Update: May 30, 2008

Modified the script to work for orkut.co.in.

Update: July 17, 2009

PhotoBucket account was inactive and showing up “inactive msg blocks” in place of emoticons.  Moved all emoticons to ImageShack for better service.

Update: September 6, 2009

Orkut changed the scrap book path.  Modified the script to work with the new path.

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The script running on my YouTube video downloading sites is outdated and the author seems to have no plans to update it. So, I have updated my sites with a new YouTube video grabbing script written by Andrew Spencer. It’s pretty few lines of code doing wonders. I used the iFrame tag to call it from a HTML file. Template is taken from OSWD.org. Thanks Spencer!

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Do you download videos from Google Video or YouTube? I do. But, they will be in FLV (Flash Video) format. You might have read my post “Online YouTube Video Downloader”. It’s a way to get the direct download link for YouTube videos. Google Video offers download option for some files (Google Video Player compatible). Use VideoDownloader extension for Firefox to get the download link for Google videos. Both ways, you will get only FLV files.

Here comes the problem. If you want to watch that movie in Windows Media Player, you have to convert it to MPEG or AVI format. Though there are variety of commercial versions of software, I use FFmpeg, an open source free software. You have to download FFmpeg window binaries along with a GUI front end to convert it. It is somewhat time consuming and I will explain about converting FLV files to other media formats in another post.

I have tested freely available FLV players and Wimpy FLV Player seems to be the best one. There is no need of installation. It is a 2.44MB stand alone player. It also supports drag and drop. It is available for both Mac and Windows.

Download it here: http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html

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As I got much better option to download the streaming videos, I have just edit this post to link to my new and updated article:

Download Streaming Videos With Real Player 11

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