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Embedded video, progressive download, streamed video—you may have heard these terms before but what do they mean? Begin by understanding the difference between them and then reading the related posts that follow.

Flash Video Delivery Techniques at a Glance (via Adobe)

Embedded Video
Entire SWF file must be downloaded to the client and loaded into memory in order to play back video.

Progressive Download
FLV files are progressively downloaded, cached, and then played from the local disk. The entire video clip need not fit in memory.

Streaming Video
FLV files are streamed from Flash Communication Server, played on the client’s machine, and then discarded from memory in a play-as-you-go method.

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The Flash Video Learning Guide provides an introduction to Flash video, including information on how to create and publish Flash video.

These and saving methods require no additional plugins or third party software.

with Firefox browser (No need for a third-party plug-in)

1) Click Tools ==> Page Info
2) Page Info ==> Click Media Tab
3) There’s a list of images and flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while loading the page.
4) Scroll down the list and find the flash file.
5) Click the Save As button. Save the file on your hard drive.

Saving Flash files with IE browser

1) Click Tools ==> Internet Options
2) General Tab ==> Settings button in the Temporary Internet Files group.
3) View Files ==> Temporary Internet Files folder.
4) Click View ==> Details.
5) Click View ==> Arrange Icons By – Internet Address.
6) Right-click on the correct flash file and choose Copy. Keeping the page and IE open, paste the flash file in another directory.

For video playback with a standalone application to see Downloading, Saving and Playing Video from the Internet (Part 1)

allows you to search for and download videos from to your hard drive. In order to view the downloaded videos, rename the files with an extension.

Where can I download a free FLV player?
VLC media player
Price: FREE
get the free VLC Media Player

How do I convert FLV videos to other formats (AVI, MPEG, etc)?
Riva FLV Encoder
Price: FREE
get the free VLC Media Converter

This Flash-based widget from Box.net allows you to share all kinds of files: anything on your computer, plus music, photos and videos. Many of these file types can be viewed in the widget itself: you can view a photo, for instance, or play an MP3. You can sign up within the embed itself, and upload files to MySpace, Facebook and blogs in general.

Get your own Box.net widget and share anywhere!

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Many online movies are presented in a format, such as (FLV), which can’t be downloaded with a simple right-click. The capture programs listed below will help you save these files to your computer. However, capturing FLV files in their original format isn’t enough. To view your file, you’ll need to either download a such as FLV Player, or convert your file into a more usable format.

First you need to .

YouTube Downloader
1) Enter the YouTube Video URL
2) Click “Get Download URL”
3) Right click “Download URL”
4) Save target as “*.flv”

KeepVid.com
Download videos DIRECT from these video sites:
Google Video
YouTube
Break.com
iFilm
Putfile
Angry Alien
ArtistDirect
Blastro
Blennus
Blip.tv
Bofunk
Bolt
Castpost
Current TV
Dailymotion
DevilDucky
FindVideos
Free Video Blog
Grinvi
grouper
Hiphopdeal
LuluTV
Metacafe
Midis.biz
Music.com
MusicVideoCodes.info
Myspace
MySpace Video Code
Newgrounds
PcPlanets
Pixparty REVVER
sharkle
StreetFire
That Video Site
The One Network
VideoCodes4U
VideoCodesWorld
VideoCodeZone
vidiLife
VIDNET.com
Vimeo
vSocial
Web62.com
ZippyVideos

VideoDownloader Firefox Extension
Sites supported:
Youtube, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace, Angry Alien, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, EVTV1, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, TotallyCrap, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos… and any other webpage with embedded objects.

Once you’ve saved your file, you’ll need a way to view the video.

FLV Player is a standalone application to play Flash .flv files with.
This utility can come in handy when viewing many FLV files, as it doesn’t require the Flash IDE. The installer comes with optional .flv association, so double clicking an .flv file opens and plays the file in the player.

CinemaForge is a video conversion and hosting utility for WinOS. Download.
CinemaForge is a video- and audio-conversion and hosting utility. The application supports Flash (SWF), Flash (FLV), Motion Pictures Group (MPEG), Audio Video Interleaved (AVI), Window Media Video (WMV), Real Video (RM), QuickTime (MOV), Advanced Streaming Format (ASF), and JPEG (thumbnails).

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X.
It works with almost all popular video formats. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose “TV” or “iPod” size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer. On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime. Features: fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD; DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported; batch processing of multiple files; automatic aspect ratio detection.