How to Download Web Videos on Mac OS X (Lion included)
2012-05-16 01:11:46 /
Posted by Brian Fisher to Download Video
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In daily life, two situations you are likely to encounter. First, you surf the Internet for fun and find many interesting videos which may amazed you, but you are unable to download them for entertainment offline. Second, you publish your favorite videos to the web for sharing. However, when you lose the original ones, you cannot download the posted ones on the web for preservation. So, if you happen to be in need of video download, you can adopt the professional app, iTube Studio for Mac for help.
This Video Downloader for Mac is especially designed to help Mac users to download web video as easily and quickly as possible. Once installed, you can download any web video by clicking the download button appeared on the top of the playing video on any video-sharing site including YouTube, FaceBook, Google Video, Yahoo Video and more. You can achieve web video download in the following way.
Launch the web video Downloader for Mac
Download and install the web video Downloader. After you install it, it could be automatically launched.
Download web videos
Open the web where the video you want to download is with Safari. Then as soon as you play the video, a downloading icon could appear on the top left corner of the video. Then three ways are available to download the web video.
1) Press the download icon which has already appeared on the top left corner of the video.
2) Go to the "Downloads" menu, choose "Enter a URL". Then you can copy and paste the URL and click "OK".
3) Directly drag and drop the URL to the interface of the web video Downloader.
Note: You can search for more interesting videos on the web while the web video Downloader is running background. When you find another wonderful video, you can download it in the same way.
Play and manage the downloaded web videos
1) If you cannot wait to watch the downloaded videos on Mac, you can go to the library, double click the video to play it. The built-in FLV Player could enable you to enjoy the video cozily.
2) If you have many other FLV videos saved on your Mac, you can easily manage these videos by adding them to the Library. You can do that by going to the "Library" menu and choosing "Add FLV files to Library".
If you have already downloaded a dozen of web videos, you might like to convert them to some other formats for usage or playback on some portable devices, like iPod, PSP and so on. To save troubles, you can directly convert the videos on the web video Downloader.
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