Have you ever came across some clips that you really want to store it on your hard drive and watch it over and over again without need to wait for the snailing speed online streaming (especially if u are a Malaysian broadband user) ? Have you ever wanted to have some singles song track which is not out anywhere else except in iMeem? (I know you can get it from iTunes, but u can’t make it yours, i’m sure u know what i meant).
After the november 25th Hindraf Rally, there has been numerous video clips available on YouTube but i cant afford to kill my time waiting for it to finish buffering using (DiGi BroadSUXBand) and watch it. Found something really interesting and useful not only for downloading clips from YouTube but also from some other online streaming site like FreeMoviesOnline, SurfTheChannel,WatchMovies.net, imeem for mp3s and the list goes on.
Before you could do so, lets start the start from the start, get yourself Mozilla Firefox as your browser here , get it installed, get hands on with the award-winning web browser before you play around with the plug-ins and extensions if you are still at novice level with Firefox.
Next, is the key player for the mentioned function to download clips and songs – DownloadHelper extension.
*Excerpt from the home page *
DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item
For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you’ll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others.
When you are on a page containing links to images or movies, you can download some or all of them at once. Moving the mouse over the items in the menu will highlights the links directly in the page to make sure they are the ones you want to pick up.
DownloadHelper also allows you to download files one by one, so that you keep bandwidth to surf for other stuff to download.
When you first install the extension, your browser is redirected to a welcome page with links to a user manual at http://www.downloadhelper.net/manual.php and a faq at http://www.downloadhelper.net/faq.php
This does not change your homepage setting and the welcome page won’t appear anymore.
Works with:
Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0.*
Get it here and install it right on your browser and you may required to restart the browser tool bar and tadaaaa, you are ready to steal download the clips, hehehe.
How to use? hmmm, it might look tedious but actually its very simple once you get use to it.
Watch this video tutorial to know how to use the DownloadHelper . And maybe also from here and here
Ok next, after you downloaded the videos or soundtrack, it will be in .flv (flash videos) format. Get yourself the flv player here and you are ready to watch your videos on your computer without connecting to the internet. Still not satisfied, want to watch it in your preferred video player with more common format like .avi, .wmv or .3gp (i know what’s running in your mind when you see this format, you dirty bugga,lolz) ? Get a flv converter here and convert the videos to your preferred video format.
Good Luck trying !!! If it worked, don’t forget to credit me back. 10xHope i didnt confuse you guys







