Capture/Record/Save Streaming Online Flash Video from 'ANY' Website

To save streaming flash video files from popular sites like YouTube, Google Video..etc isn't a big deal anymore. There are lots of software tools & web services available for that! However, each one of them only support a limited number of sites.

But what if you want to download video files from sites that aren't supported by these softwares & web services? Oh yes! It can be done with a small software called WebVideoCap.
Basically, when you are seeing a video in your web browser, the video is first cached by the browser. And WebVideoCap creates a video file from this cache.

Here's how you can capture flash video files with this software:

1. Run WebVideoCap and specify a folder where you want to save the flash video (flv) file. Click the 'Start Capture' button.
2. Now, open your browser and go to the site where the video is located and play it within the browser.
3. When the browser completes playing the video inside the Webpage, WebVideoCap saves the video file in the folder you specified earlier. After finishing, click the 'Stop Capture' button in WebVideoCap.


You can now play the video file in a flash video player.

Limitations:
1. One limitation is if the video is already in your browser cache, WebVideoCap won't save it. To overcome this, you have to clear the browser cache, start capturing from WebVideoCap again & reload the video web page.
2. Only flash videos can be saved. Other streaming media types aren't supported at this point.

WebVideoCap is a very small and easy to use utility with no installation required. Best of all, its Free! This one is certainly for the non-geeks.

Tested with Firefox on Windows XP. This should also work with Internet Explorer.

[Download Web Video Cap (Windows Only)]

USB Digital Video Recorder

The USB DVR is computer surveillance hardware that turns your home or office computer into a powerful, global-wide video surveillance system in 5 minutes or less. Connect this compact device to any desktop or laptop via USB port. Then you can record live video from the camera connected to the PC’s hard drive. Can connect up to 4 cameras.

Features:

• Color adjustable for each channel

• MPEG4 Compression

• Video playback, pause, stop, fast-forward, single-frame play and image capture

• Advanced search mode

• Multi-lingual

• Remote surveillance and

• PTZ control

• User friendly interface

• Watch your pets, nanny, babysitter, even your kids

• View from any location in the world via the Internet

• Use your computer's IP address to log on and immediately view live or past video

• Can record to HDD, USB DISK, ZIP Drive, CD/RW

• Supports 5 levels of recording quality

• Can change record frame rate per channel from 1-39 fps. The lower setting of the FPS will save hard drive space

• Support multi channel playback

• Easy to install and operate

System Requirements:

• Intel P4 Celeron processor minimum 1700MHz

• Motherboard Intel 845/865/915 series - Compatible with most Intel Chipsets

• HDD 80G minimum

• RAM 256M minimum

• Video Card GeForce2,GeForce4,FX5200,ATI Rage128

• OS Windows 2000(SP4 above)/2003(SP1 above)/XP(SP2 above)/VISTA

• Direct X 9.0 USB 2.0

Specifications:

Input type: RCA

Video input: Four channels

Audio input: Two channels audio on board, one-channel PC audio

Video output: One-channel VGA video output

Display rate: 25fps (PAL), 30fps (NTSC)

Recording rate: 25fps (PAL), 30fps (NTSC)

Compression format: MPEG4

Video resolution: 640 x 480, 320 x 240 (NTSC)

Record modes: Motion, schedule, manual

Network: TCP/IP

Pan Tilt Zoom: Protocol configurable, remote control capability

Remote software: Supports Internet Explorer web browser