How to download online video clips?

Written by: Laury

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(last updated June 30, 2011)

Sometimes sites allow video downloads; in that case they have a clic somewhere to make downloads. If not, some softwares have been developped:

1. If you can use Firefox, DownloadHelper is a media download Firefox extension. It makes easy Web videos Downloads. It works with most of videos except Xtube for instance.

Use of DownloadHelper Firefox Ad-on:

When the Download Embedded plugin detects an embedded object, a small red arrow will appear on the status bar at the bottom (or top) of
your firefox window. Just click that and either download them all or pick which ones you want to download.

2. Free Software : for Youtube videos …

Download videos from Youtube (with Enhanced Quality), Google Video and save as AVI, MPEG4 (iPod, PSP) with videodownloader

3. Software to buy: to download video clips from Xtube and others:

Easy Video Downloader works fine for most of video clips.