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Firefox Scripts Bring Videos to Your Desktop

By Wired Blogs January 9, 2006 Categories: Multimedia

Joshua Kinberg of Sandbox Films, a video blogging news site, has written two Greasemonkey scripts that allow you to download videos from Google Video and Youtube.com. These videos are free to watch and available for non-commercial viewing. The scripts allow you to pull videos from the two sites onto your computer, where you can transcode them so they are viewable on your Sony PSP, Video iPod, or other portable device. Both sites use Flash containers to play the videos, so any video you download will arrive as a Flash file.

After installing the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox, grab the scripts from Sandbox films. The scripts add download links to the tops of pages containing video files.


Remember to play nice. Only download videos for your personal, non-commercial use, and be sure to read the terms of use for any site you’re downloading content from.

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