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  • Video Downloads Via Mozilla Firefox

  • Please open your copy of Mozilla Firefox.  If you don't have this browser installed on your computer please go here.

    • If you ever found yourself repeatedly starting and stopping an online video clip because it wouldn't buffer fast enough or felt that Flash was slowing your browser down to a crawl, you should try Video DownloadHelper for Firefox.

      Video DownloadHelper is a free add-on, and it has been around for years. With almost six million downloads and over 3,000 reviews giving it an average of over four stars, this is one of the best ways to download videos off YouTube, Vimeo, and a slew of other video-hosting websites.

      The link below will help install the Video Downloadhelper Add-On to your Mozilla Firefox browser.  This step is required.

  • VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

    Features

    Simple, Powerful and Fast

    Plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray), Webcams and Streams

    Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
    MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, WebM, WMV player

    Completely Free, 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking

    Works on most platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...

    Media Converter and Streamer

  • Once you've installed Firefox, the add-on, as well as VLC player you can begin downloading videos from webpages.  The link below is a quick video tutorial demonstrating how you can accomplish this task.

  • VidToMP3 is a brand new site that allows you to download YouTube videos and the audio from non-copyrighted video clips on video sites! We support all of your favorites: MySpace, YouTube, Vimeo, Google video and many more.