How to download streaming video.

I am sure that you have watched streaming videos from websites such as Youtube, Break and Dailymotion. You need to have internet access in order to continue watching videos from these websites. If you want to watch the video over and over again, you need to connect to the internet to search for it and wait for the buffering of the video to finish before you can watch the video comfortably.

Did you ever wished that you can watch them offline? You do not need to search and wait for them to buffer as what you normally do because the video is readily available inside your hard drive waiting for you to play them inside your media player.

To make that possible, you need to download the video from the website. So, how do we download the streaming video from the internet?

There are several ways to do that, you can search for them in the internet. It's up to you to choose which one do you prefer.

From experience of using them, I settled down to 2 methods to download the streaming video.

Keepvid.com
Go to this website and paste your video URL link into a textbox provided by the website. After processing, the website will give a link to download the video. Simple right? But there are limitation on the number of websites that they support, that means, not every website will work with keepvid.com.


Downloadhelper
Due to keepvid's limitation, I searched the internet to look for the best alternatives to the keepvid method. That's where Downloadhelper comes into the picture. Downloadhelper can download any streaming media that your browser is receiving from the internet (it works 90% of the times that I used it).

Using Firefox, go to Downloadhelper.net to download it to your Firefox browser (it's a Firefox extension). It only works with Firefox. Therefore, you need to have Firefox first before you install Downloadhelper. There will be a new button on your Firefox browser (beside the address bar).

Flashgot
This is my favorite. It's the most powerful extension (again, you need to have Firefox for this). Using Firefox, go to Flashgot.net and click the "Install" button in the website mentioned. This extension works almost in every website that features streaming media (audio or video).

Once you finished installing and restarted your browser, you will notice a Flashgot function when you right clicked in the website with a video or audio streaming (there will be "Flashgot Media" selection where you need to click on it to download your streaming media).

That's all. Now, you can enjoy your videos offline without constant access to the internet. Here a tip, if you want to play the downloaded videos, I recommend using VLC Player or Media Player Classic.