What You Will Need (Using only free tools!)
- Firefox
- VideoDownloader Extension for Firefox
- MediaCoder
Instructions:
1) Download and install all of the free tools listed above.
2) Goto a site (such as Youtube, MySpace, GoogleVideo, iFilm, etc.
3) Search and find a video you would like to keep.
4) Click the VideoDownloader Button in the bottom right part of your Firefox Browser window. Read More»
An Instructional video posted to YouTube has been offering a primer on how to use Google to nick music and video files in less time than it takes to download them from a P2P site. The Financial Times has got its knickers in a twist after discovering a a 21 year old called Jimmy Ruska has posed the video which shows how to direct Google’s search engine to locate files from unprotected computer systems.
The FT says that Ruska’s formula worked at Yahoo and other search engines. The nine-minute long video shows that the trick is focus a search on certain keywords, Read More»
Sometimes playing videos on your PC isn’t easy, particularly when they have been downloaded off the internet. This is normally because your PC doesn’t have the necessary codecs installed to play the video file in question. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats.
The quickest way to ensure that your PC can play all video files is to install the K-Lite Codec Pack. The K-Lite Code Pack is a collection of almost every codec under the sun, that will allow you to play all your video and audio files. Read More»
Here’s a great tip for re-combining video files, if a website has split it into smaller parts to make it easier for people with slow internet connections to download them. It’s so simple, it’s beautiful.
The method is different depending on the type of movie that you are playing. If the movie consists of multiple mpg movies you can use the windows command line to merge them. Read More»
Want to jazz up your desktop? Well there are two great apps that allow you to make your own free video screensavers.
The first one is ‘My Video Screen Saver‘ which supports the following features:
. Plays AVI, MPEG, WMV video files as a screen saver
. Displays videos randomly
. Allows the volume of each video to be adjusted
. Allows videos to be previewed from the settings window
. Adjust videos to 100%, 150% or 200% for each file
. Runs on all Windows operating systems
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