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DESCRIPTION
Flash Video Downloader is an application which allows you to easily batch download and save streaming flash videos from just about any website with streaming flash videos as long as the videos are set to autoplay (that is, they start playing when the page loads). Examples of sites are youtube.com, video.google.com, and dailymotion.com, but just about any website will work. Instead of sifting through the html code of the webpage to find the flash video, Flash Video Downloader 2 actually checks where the video is coming from and download it, which will ensure that it will still work even if the page has changed. It can even download videos that require you to login to the website and videos from websites that first play an advertisement. Flash Video Downloader 2 can also download up to 5 videos at a time in order to significantly improve the overall download time.
Features:
- Automatically checks for the newest version
- Downloads the video files (.flv) for you so you don't have to deal with complicated "flash video downloading websites" or firefox extensions anymore
- Will continue working even if a flash video site changes its coding because it actually checks where the videos is instead of relying on sifting through html code
- Downloads up to 5 videos simultaneously to significantly speed up the overall process
- Can download videos that require you to login to the website first
- Able to download videos that first play an advertisement before the actual video
- Allows many videos to be downloaded in a batch process, leaving you free to go do something else while Flash Video Downloader takes care of your videos for you
- Shows the progress of each video as well as the overall process
- Has optional Growl Support to easily notify you of the current progress
- Can shut down the computer and/or beep when its finished
- It's Free!
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.3:
- Restored normal behavior to the close button in the main window; it will now hide the window when clicked
- Corrected website URL listed in the About box to the new website URL
- No longer prints out the flash video's actual URL to the console (this was accidently left in the program)
- Updated Help Book
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Flash Video Downloader User Reviews (48 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 15 2009 |
MACSWEEP This application will not download or save *real* streaming video. this page has real streaming video: http://amazingdiscoveries.tv/media/127/214c-232K/. there is no video file on the page. it is streamed from a different url.
(Version 2.1.3) | |
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 | Nov 2 2009 |
GREGMLR I am using Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" 10.6.1 and have an issue that causes my mouse pointer to disappear when I'm running FVD 2.1.3. This is a sporadic incident and is resolved by closing FVD. Sometimes the my arrow will reappear own its own, only to disappear again. I know the latest version of FVD was released months before Snow Leopard, I am mostly curious to see if anyone else is having the same issue.
(Version 2.1.3) | |
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| Nov 8 2009 |
SCRIVENS Yep, same thing with 10.6.1. Very annoying as it takes a while for the cursor to be restored.
(Version 2.1.3) | |
 | Nov 11 2009 |
TESSERACT SOFTWARE I don't have Snow Leopard yet, and I have been unable to reproduce the problem on Leopard. However, I looked around on the internet, and it seems that there is a bug in the version of Flash which ships with Snow Leopard that can cause your mouse to disappear. They specifically mention this happening with Photoshop and with Safari. Because FVD2 uses WebKit (Safari) and Flash, I am guessing that this is the cause of the problem. The solution that they give is to upgrade to the latest version of Flash. You can get it here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer Please let me know if this works.
(Version 2.1.3) | |
 | Aug 27 2009 |
VGPWNR7 I recently had to switch to an ISP that doesn't have a very good connection to the internet, so I am not albe to watch youtube videos anymore without problems. Flash Video Downloader provided the solution that I needed. I just find a bunch of videos that I want to watch, add them to the FVD, and let it download overnight. In the morning, I have all of the videos that I wanted to watch. I strongly recommend Flash Video Downloader to anybody who has trouble watching streaming videos (or just wants to save them for later). I will definitely be making a donation to the author
(Version 2.1.3) | |
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| Aug 18 2009 |
CHEALION This program doesn't seem to be able to download "real" streaming files - that is .flvs that are served through a Flash Video Streaming Server over RTMP versus .flv files that are downloaded (ala YouTube, Google Video, etc.) It simply reports that it could not find a flash video. Thankfully the vast majority of Flash video available is not streamed.
(Version 2.1.3) | |
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| Feb 4 2009 |
RPSX how to you capture any streaming flv files? there are solutions on the pc, but not on mac, it seems?
(Version 2.1.1) | |
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| Mar 8 2009 |
ANONYMOUS This comment does not seem to make sense. Flash Video Downloader allows you to download streaming flash videos; that's the whole point.
(Version 2.1.2) | |
| Oct 3 2008 |
SPRINGHEELMAC I love this program, but I'm not able to use it on 'hulu.com'. This isn't any fault of the program; I've tried numerous others with the same result. Has anyone else had any luck with this or any other program at 'hulu.com'?
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Aug 13 2009 |
TESSERACT SOFTWARE Hulu takes many precautions to prevent users from downloading its videos because they are copyrighted. If users start downloading Hulu videos, then the video suppliers (Fox, NBC, etc) will begin taking down videos from Hulu, which is something that nobody wants. I have no plans to try to get FVD2 to work with Hulu because I don't want to ruin Hulu. Besides, downloading copyrighted videos is illegal, and I will not purposefully allow FVD2 to download copyrighted videos.
(Version 2.1.3) | |
| Apr 15 2008 |
MARIO MAC I've tried many other flash video downloading programs, but this one is the best. It always works for me. I just queue up a bunch of videos that I want to download,come back later, and its done. The Growl support is a nice touch. The only "bad" thing is that the name is very generic sounding (but it does make it easy to find).
(Version 2.0.4) | |
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| Apr 11 2008 |
TESSERACT SOFTWARE If you are having a problem with a specific video or website, please email me at tesseractsoftware[at]gmail.com instead of posting here - I will be able to help you a lot better if you email me and you will recieve a faster response.
(Version 2.0.4) | |
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| Apr 9 2008 |
DRZOOM it is not working here: http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html
(Version 2.0.4) | |
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| Apr 11 2008 |
TESSERACT SOFTWARE The reason that website is not working is because its actually not using flash videos. That site is using a "fancy" portal written in mostly flash and the videos are actually in flash (which is, confusingly, not the same thing as flash videos). Flash videos have a .flv extension and the videos on that site are actually videos embedded in a flash file, which is .swf Unfortunatly, there is nothing that I can do to change that.
(Version 2.0.4) | |
| Feb 1 2008 |
LYNDHURST25 Works great for me (OS 10.4.11). Now all we need is for them to make it work with the BBC's iPlayer streaming flash videos (DRM issues?). Please....
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| Feb 29 2008 |
TESSERACT SOFTWARE I looked at BBC's iPlayer site. They only allow users from the UK to view their videos, so I can't even test if FVD2 works on their site or not. (It is against their licensing agreement and Terms of Usage stuff for users outside of the UK to view their videos so using a work-around would be a violation) And, if they have DRM, as you suggest they might, FVD2 is not able to decrypt DRM and I'm certain that doing so would also be a violation of their Terms of Usage. I'd rather not get into any "grey areas" of the law.
(Version 2.0.4) | |
| Dec 24 2008 |
LAWRENCEDUDLEY Try BBC iPlayer Downloader (search on Macupdate).
(Version 2.1) | |
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