Download Tutorial: Download and convert your favourite videos

This step-by-step guide will show you how to free download video from Youtube, Google, Yahoo and other video download website. Videos come from those websites are streaming videos. You need special software to capture steaming videos. Today we take YouTube video for example, write a guide about how to download streaming video to computer for free, provide two methods:

1. With free online flv converter

You may take a look at this post at 3gp magazine, which will show you how to use vixy.net to convert your favourite videos to 3gp or any other video format. or you can try this online media converter.
you also can try another online converter, http://keepvid.com , very easy to use, copy the URL to the address box, done.

2. With Firefox

If you have Firefox browser, you can follow these steps.
Step1. Install the videodownloader extension. This is a plug-in for Firefox. It enables you capture streaming video from website. Here is the free download link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390

Step2. After installing videodownloader, restart Firefox. In the bottom right, you’ll see a little box. Go to the video you want to download, double click that little box, and select download link. Then you could download the streaming video you want. (Note, you have to rename the file extension from “html” to “flv”)

You have to rename the file extension from “html” to “flv” when you save the link. (Make sure your compute is show file extension)

Convert the downloaded video to the right format you want
The downloaded video will be FLV format, if you want to convert the FLV video to AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOV, DAT, DivX, XviD, MPG, 3GP, ASF, RM, RMVB, OGG, VOB, M4V, M4A, MP3, AC3, AAC, WMA, WAV, etc. You can find nice 3gp video converters here for you to convert flv to 3gp.