Re: How to download online videos?

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded normally.
>> The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to download from a
>> web
>> site.  I managed to download it with MS-Windows RealPlayer, from the Windows
>> partition I have on my hard disk.
>>
>> I installed RealPlayer also on Debian, but it does not seem to work.
>>
>> I'd be glad if anybody suggests a particular tool that's known to really
>> work.


Nick Lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net> writes:

> Try the Fast Video Download Firefox Plugin.
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590
>
> Will let you save just about any flash video as a .flv file. There are other
> plugins that do the same; check the Firefix plugin site for more details.



Thanks.
>From that site, I saw that it is only possible to install directly the
plugin.  I don't like that.  Isn'it possible to download it first amd *then*
install it?

Rodolfo