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[immortal1]

Perfect for mash ups.

"VideoGet is a tool for downloading your favorite video clips from more than 100+ video websites. It supports such websites like YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Yahoo Video, VSocial and a lot more.

Most of these video websites are keeping video in FLV format, and a lot of people don't know how to playback these files. VideoGet also providing you with ability to convert each video in most popular formats for more comfortable video playback. VideoGet supports AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats, so you will be able not only to view it, but also put it into your iPod, mobile phone or any other portable device. Furthermore you can set up video/audio quality, set up video frame rate, width / height and audio sampling rate."

VideoGet:
http://nuclear-coffee.com/php/products.php

Trial versions of VideoGet will allow you to download only 20 videos after first installation.

[Luminous]

Here's a free online site that converts videos from .flv to a variety of video formats, including .avi, and .mov and even splits out audio for an mp3:

www.vixy.net

Just input the URL of the site you want to convert and click start. When it is done processing, right click the link and save to your hard drive. (not sure what the save procedure is for Macs).
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[QtheC]

As mentioned in the thread about video conversion, I found a free tool that allows conversion from FLV to other formats (including extracting the audio to .wav or .mp3). The same "wrapper" tool also has a file download utility with a long list of video websites, that allows you to grab videos (I have not tested this feature).
Internet Video Converter
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwvideconvert.html


In the case of Revver and YouTube videos, I have found it possible to copy the .flv files directly from my browser cache (temporary internet files) and then view them with a free program, FLV Player 1.3.3 available here:
http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated

(I am working on a PC running Windows XP Home Edition and using Internet Explorer).

[-R-]

Another really easy tool w/o downloading any software is using the sites Ripzor and Zamzar.

Ripzor (link above) is a great website to rip videos from FLV supported websites such as YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, Dailymotion, Break.com, iFilm and Putfile. Just click on of the rippers on the right side of the page and fill out the form of what the link is, etc. Then you will be able to download the FLV file. (Remember to add '.flv' to the end of your downloaded file, or else you won't be able to access it.)





Zamzar (link above) is another website that can help with this. Zamzar can convert basically anything to anything. Check the conversion types here. In this case, we would be looking at the FLV video conversion types. You can convert .flv format videos to:

• 3gp - 3GPP Multimedia File
  
• aac - Advanced Audio Coding File
  
• ac3 - AC3 Audio File
  
• avi - Windows video file
  
• flac - Free Lossless Audio Codec
  
• gif - Graphic Interchange Format
  
• mov - Apple QuickTime Movie
  
• mp3 - Compressed audio file
  
• mp4 - MPEG-4 Video File (also for iPod)
  
• mpg - Moving Picture Experts Group File
  
• ogg - Ogg Vorbis Compressed Audio File
  
• wav - Windows audio file
  

So there is a wide area of conversion. When you want to download, just go to the home page and fill out the form. Your converted file will be sent to your email!



I hope this tutorial helped!