Download Streaming Video to Hard Drive, iPhone, iPad

Summer holiday is in the corner, it is the greatest event for students who have been buried with endless exams and assignment. By customary rule, it would be traditionally a time for outdoor celebrations with friends and family. Some are expected to go to summer sort to prevent from sunstroke. Others may choose to stay at home to play with friends.

No matter how you spend this summer holiday, you need entertainment to enrich your summer vacation, e.g. watching funny videos during the boring trip before reaching summer sort, share and enjoy favorite movie that can increase your friendship with your bubby. How to realize that? Actually one of the practical ways is to collect some online streaming videos to your Mac or portable devices for watching on the go or sharing with your families & friends since bookmarking is not a viable solution when it is off line or with poor signal strength. To ensure you could enjoy fluent video, it would be better to download streaming video ahead of time.

Why we need third party solution to download streaming video

However, if you have tried to save any favorite videos, you will find that the vast majority of streaming video on the Internet is in the Flash Video that are highly-compressed but can't be downloaded by general browser as many people think. This is because streaming video is not a medium. Streaming is something that is constantly being offered or played for anyone to view but does not mean you can record or download. And different sites also have different security measures put in place. That is why the ability to download streaming video does not work. What is make people more frustrated is some websites even charge for watching these types of videos. At this moment, what can help you out is a delicate 3rd party solution that works on this. Three methods are listed below, you could choose the one that most fit you.

• Streaming Video Downloader & Converter

One of the easiest ways to capture streaming videos is MacX Video Converter Pro, which will brings you an ideal solution to download streaming videos from online video sharing sites including YouTube, Vimeo, Break, Google, etc. More than a streaming video downloader, but a streaming video converter, MacX Video Converter Pro is capable of converting among HD and general video formats on behalf of you, no matter for watching on major media players, edit via iMovie, or transferring to iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, Blackberry, etc.

• Firefox Add-on ---Download Helper

Besides using MacX Video Converter Pro to download streaming video, for those who using Firefox, Download Helper is a simple extension that can also do this job. Once you have successfully downloaded this plug-in, the web browser add-on works right there where the videos are opened, then you could capture a file by clicking the related icon in the browser and save the video in its original format FLV. You are also allowed to convert the downloaded video to different formats, however, a ConvertHelper logo is inserted at the top left corner until you pay to register the program.

• Download Streaming Video Online

Another way is downloading streaming video online via Keepvid, which is offered by Google to download streaming videos to your computer. It is extremely easy to use. All you need to do is just open the website, copy the URL of the video you want and paste this into the box on keepvid.com, then hit download. When the downloading process is finished, different video download URL is produced with different output video formats. You could select the file to download according to your needs. However, it has limitations. You have to download Java before downloading and it is filled with advertisements.

To sum up, to download streaming videos is not difficult if you know any of the above solutions. However, if you would like to watch the download videos on devices besides computer, MacX Video Converter Pro is the most suitable one. Since it is an all-in-one solution for you to download, edit, convert and transfer videos to any format or any devices. No mention the speed factor involved in this process. Embedded with multi-core CPU utility and hyper threading technology, it is much faster than Keepvid and Firefox.

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Download Streaming Video to Hard Drive, iPhone, iPad

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