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- Like a professional Youtube video downloader, Sothink Web Video Downloader automatically captures what you are viewing on net and download your favorite ones. Almost all formats of videos are supported, including FLV, AVI, WMV, ASF, MOV, RM, RMVB, etc. It also can capture and download SWF content (Flash movies). It is smart, easy to use and can fast complete video downloading task.
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FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (also called Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. FLV content may also be embedded within SWF files. Notable users of the FLV format include Google Video, Reuters.com, YouTube and MySpace. Flash Video is viewable on most operating systems, via the widely available Macromedia Flash Player and web browser plug-in, or one of several third-party programs such as Media Player Classic (with the ffdshow codecs installed), MPlayer, or VLC media player.
SWF is a proprietary vector graphics file format produced by the Flash software from Adobe (formerly Macromedia). Intended to be small enough for publication on the web, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function. SWF is also sometimes used for creating animated display graphics and menus for DVD movies, and television commercials. The Flash program produces SWF files as a compressed and uneditable final product, whereas it uses the .fla format for its editable working files.
(The definitions above are quoted from wikipedia.com) The video played correctly in my browser, but Sothink Web Video Downloader could not capture it, why?
A: Some video sites use RTMP or MMS protocol to stream the video, which are not supported by Sothink Web Video Downloader. Only HTTP protocol is supported currently.
I clicked the New Download button and added the URL of a Web page which contains a video to download, but the downloaded file cannot play in any video player, why?
The downloaded file is a HTML file if you enter the URL of a Web page directly. To download the video, please open the Web page in your browser and let Sothink Web Video Downloader capture it for you.
Why does Sothink Web Video Downloader always restart the download from the beginning when I try to resume a paused download from YouTube?
YouTube's servers do not support resuming paused downloads. Do not pause the downloads or shutdown the computer before completion.
How to play the FLV video file that I've just downloaded?
To play the downloaded FLV video file, you can use Sothink FLV Player. It's a small and 100% free Flash video player.
After installed Sothink FLV Player, you can click "Open" in the "Downloads" window of Firefox, or choose "Open File" from the context menu to launch the player directly to play the Flash video.
Or preview in Web Video Downloader window. Click here to check the interface of the latest version.
