Have you ever watched a video online, through youtube or google video or just some embedded stuff and thought to yourself. I sure wish I could keep that video to be used on my portable device or even to put it on a DVD for offline viewing?
Well I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, and I have a solution for you... I have used this for almost a year now and it's been most excellent in it's task of ripping video and even audio content directly off the page for my selfish, grubby little hands...
It's called Download Helper, and it's a firefox extension. You can find it at http://www.downloadhelper.net/ It is easy to install and well, you should already be using firefox anyhow :)
Basically how it works is by automating the process of finding not just the meta files that process the streaming video but it digs deep into the source and finds the mp3/flv/avi/mpg etc that is the actual video, it then waits for it to stream to a file in your temporary internet folder and then saves it to wherever you want. When youtube first came out this was as easy as looking at the source code and clipping and pasting where the original file is, then they got smart and changed the code a bit... I had to create a meta file of my own etc... Now it's even more difficult, buried in php code etc...
If you want to keep the media your watching, download helper is the way to go!
Best of all, it's FREE!
Cheers!
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