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Kana · 12-18-2007, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djack

Get the Riva player.

http://rivavx.de/index.php?downloads0&L=3
Scroll down to the free one at the bottom.
After you install it:

Get the Firefox extension. Video Download Helper
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir.../type:1/cat:38

This puts an icon in your toolbar. When you watch a video that is downloadable (so far they all are) it starts to rotate. Click the name to download it to your Riva player folder.

Now you can watch it without your browser.

I've not tried that, but it looks good. I use VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), which will play just about any file, including FLV files, and has all the codecs built in, making it portable. The K-Lite codec pack also contains an FLV DirectShow filter, along with the lightweight Media Player Classic for watching videos (http://www.codecguide.com/about_mega.htm).

I use the Video DownloadHelper extension to save the flash movies from Youtube and other sites (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006).