GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams |
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Video Web Downloads |
The Video DownloadHelper (http://www.downloadhelper.net/) is a plugin for Firefox and Chrome to download videos. The Chrome version has limitations placed on it so that it is not able to download videos from YouTube,noting that both Chrome and YouTube are Google products. This plugin is one of the most popular (number 2 or 3) plugins for web browsers. Once installed, the three little balls will light up in colour when the web page being visited has an embedded video that it might be able to download. Click on the toolbar icon and then Download or Quick Download.
The web site https://getvideo.at can download videos from many web sites on the Internet including YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, IMDB, and Twitter. Simply enter the video URL and the website does the rest. A number of formats are offered to choose from. If you click on one and the video itself begins to play then right mouse button to choose to download the video.
Many embedded videos are actually hosted by https://wistia.com. To get the URL for the video you will need to view the HTML page source (F12) where the video is embedded and then search for wistia to identify the video code. It might be something like https://fast.wistia.net/embedded/iframe/ab7qsltub. Paste the URL into the text box at https://getvideo.at.