Click on the following link to see Tibet’s protest videos on Youtube and for those who cannot view Youtube because of the ban, following article suggests ways to get around the firewall and visit the banned sites.

Resource Links:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=tibet+china
http://grownu pgeek.com/youtube-com-blocked

Demolish the Demolisher’s thats the law running around. Click here to read the full story.

How to record or capture video chats or webcams? You have been chatting which the coolest chick in the world and because you are a geek you friends wont believe you if they don’t see it (that’s lame, lets try another one). You are in a important meeting and there are several things you want to remember from the meeting, what do you do? Record the video chat?

That’s exactly what YCC Cam Cap lets you do. It automatically saves the streaming video to an .avi file on your computer for later references. To visit the download page click here  or click here to download the application directly. WebCam Companion is another software which is free and offers more features. It lets you capture, edit, print and share photos and videos from your Webcam.

How to setup live streaming on a website? Let’s say you want to add live streaming of your web cam to a site or a web page. What do you do? You download CoffeeCup WebCam 4 for windows. This is not a free software but you can certainly try a full version of this software for free. Click here to read more and download the software’s.

Here is another one. “How to use a webcam with more than one application at a time?” CamSplitter will help you split your cam with different applications. This will be helpful in case you have two friends, one on Yahoo and another on MSN. Using this software you can have a video chat with both of them. Click here to visit the download page or here to download the software directly. This software will cost you around $30 but you can try it for free.

How to convert a web Cam to a security camera? Download and install 123Motion this will help you setup a cheap but effective security system at home. 123Motion is capable of doing a lot of intelligent things like Motion Detection, Capturing images are regular intervals, capture images and send e-mails, upload images to ftp, sound the alarm, etc… Click here to visit the download page or here to download it directly.

How to create video greetings or change backgrounds using Webcam? WebcamMax is one of the softwares which will let you do multiple things such as change the background, create greetings, add images, record and share videos, etc.. the coolest thing about the software is it lets you change background while a live video chat is on. Click here to visit the download page or here to directly download.

I hope this article helps you do a lot of things you always wanted to do!

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As expected Google leads with 32.6% market share followed by Fox Interactive Media and Yahoo! Sites with 3.5% and 3.4% market share respectively.

Report also states that about 141 million Americans visited video sites during the month of December of which Google captured 79 million unique viewers followed by Fox Interactive Media with 43.9 million and Yahoo! Sites with 38.2 million.

Click here to read the full report.

Sites like Youtube, Cinematube, tv-links, etc.. Offer free videos and Realplayer Download Plugin lets you download videos from ANY site on the internet, great isn’t it?

Here is the problem, these videos are downloaded in flash format i.e. .flv format which is not supported by traditional media players. This article will help you convert files in flash (.flv) to .avi, .mpeg or in any other desired format.

I did a little bit of research and found two free yet useful products which will help us convert media files format from .flv to avi or mpg or from .avi, mpg to .flv, etc…

1. Riva FLV Encoder 2 (http://www.download.com/Riva-FLV-Encoder/3000-2140-10320097.html)
2. SUPER 2007 Build 23 (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Encoders-Converter-DIVX -Related/SUPER.shtml or http://download.videohelp.com/download/SUPERsetup200723.exe)

I personally recommend “Super 2007 Build 23” as it supports a long list of media formats, offers more control to the user at the time of conversion and is easy to use.

Download Super 2007 Build 23 from Here (The file is fairly huge, 26.7MB)

How to Convert[tags]How to convert[/tags] from .FLV to .AVI or .MPG using SUPER 2007

1. Once the download is complete, Double click on the file and follow the wizard to install Super 2007 Build 23
2. Run the software once the installation is complete
3. From the first option “Select the output container” you can select .avi, .mpg, .mov, .asf, .mp4 and lot of other available formats.
4. From the second option “Select the output video codec” DivX, XviD, MPEG1, MPEGII, MPEG4, etc…
5. From the third option “Select the output Audio codec” you can select MP3,AAC, AC3, WAV, etc.

These are the three most important options you have to choose to change the format for the media file but do play around a little bit with the other options to get a high quality video after conversion.

Now select the video you want to convert, you can either drag & drop the media file you want to convert or just right click and select “Add multimedia file(s)” to select the file as shown in the picture below. Once you select the video files you want to convert, hit “Encode (Active Files)” button to start the conversion.

How to convert Flash Video .FVL to .AVI, .MPG etc.. using Riva FLV Encoder  (Riva converts FLV to AVI and MPG and it’s very easy to use however the quality of the video after conversion is debatable.)

1. Download Riva FLV Encoder 2 from here (4.7 MB)
2. Double-click on the file to run the installation wizard once the download is completed
3. Run the software after the installation is complete
4. Select the media file you want to convert from “Input Video File”
5. In “destination video file” change the format extension from .flv to .avi or .mpg
6. Now hit “FLV Encode”, you are done!

Play around with the other options for better results.

I hope this helps everyone who is trying to convert.FLV [tags]convert .FLV[/tags] or any other media type. Thanks to Mike for requesting an article on how to convert FLV to AVI, we should have done this long ago

The latest versions of the Real player which is version 11, build 6.0 + lets you download videos you are watching on the Internet. All you have to do is install the real player and enable the “Download This Video” option while installing real player. After the installation is complete you can visit any video site and just mouse over the video and you will see a button popping up “Download This Video” as shown in the picture below which simply downloads the video on-click.

As I stated you can download videos from YouTube, Tv-links.co.uk, MetaCafe.com, etc.. almost any website. Following are the sites real player is known to work with

Download From YouTube.com
MetaCafe.com
Esnips.com
MSN Videos
Brightcove.com
Tv-links.co.uk
Cinematube.net
Watch-Movies.net
DavidM ovie.com
 
Click here to download Real Player or query:"Download free real player" in Google. Run the setup and you are all set for downloading on-line Videos.

I am going crazy thinking that almost every video on the Internet is  downloadable. It works well with FireFox and Internet Explorer, I haven’t tested it with other browsers.

[UPDATE: 11th July] RealPlayer pluging does not work with the latest version of FireFox, Firefox3.

Please read Best Firefox Extensions post to get an alternate plugin which does the job.

[Update: 12th April - 09] RealPlayer Download option seems to be working with the latest versions of FireFox and Internet Explorer. If your previous installation of RealPlayer isnt working, please reinstall it.

This is one stop shop for all the movie freaks and will keep you busy watching for weeks together. The best part of the site is that you can even download movies while watching the movie online. The site uses DivX to play movies, all you have to do is right click on the player and get into options and set the download option.

That is one site I like the most however this URL has a list of sites which offer the same functionality. Have FUn!  www.ovguide.com/tvfilm.html

Leave a comment and let us know about more of such sites.

These sessions are extremely informative and interesting to the core. As Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, even these videos are available on Google Videos. Search for “Google engEDU” on Google Videos or just click on the link to see the list of TechTalk Videos!

One of my favorite Videos is on Human Computation by Luis von Ahn who is an assistant professor in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is associated with technologies like CAPTCHA and a concept known as ESP Game!

Read on to see how easy it is to download and save videos from the internet. There are lot of options for downloading videos off the internet. They have been categorized as Websites, Scripts and Softwares.

Websites: Keepvid.com This site helps you download the video files without installing any software on the computer. Just copy the URL and paste it on this site and download FLV

YouTubedownloader The name of the site is pretty self explanatory. This site downloads FLV’s

Javimoya.com This site is similar to Keepvid.com and downloads videos form LOT of sites if the URL is provided. Scripts Greasemonkey script ( Greasemonkey should be installed in order to use this script) This script works with Youtube and Google Videos. Once installed it adds a link on the page were video is being played. Just click and download. Its my personal favorite. Click here to see how it works and download the script. Video Downloader (Firefox Extension, does not work with lot of sites) One of the best things about this software is that it takes care of all your video format needs and certainly satisfies your huge "Save the Video on the Computer" EGO!

This extension supports following extensions:

• FLV
• AVI
• iPod
• PSP

To see this extension in Action Click here and if you really like the simplicity of this extension when it comes to downloading videos off the internet, click on the following link to download it. Click here to download

Softwares: SNAGIT is a good software which does a lot of other useful things including screen recording. Once the software is installed on the computer, play the video on any site and record that part of the screen with SNAGIT. Its simple and easy! SNAGIT will cost you 29$ but there is a 30 day trial period. So make sure you use is for a month and then buy it. Click here to download 30 day trial.

Following is the list of screen recorders (editor’s choice)

• River Past Screen Recorder
• Screen Recorder Gold
• My Screen Recorder
• Screen Video Recorder

What are you waiting for. Use one of the techniques mentioned above and start downloading movie or videos off the internet.