Best Ways to Download Online Videos

There are many ways to download online videos from video sharing web sites and services on the internet like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com, MySpace TV, Facebook, Vimeo, Google Video and many more other web sites which sharing video files for all of us.

Download Managers

You can easily download online video files from most today’s popular download managers available on the internet. I will here list only the free download managers, which you can download, install and use completely for free without limitations.

• Orbit – It’s one of the most advanced free download managers. Allowing you to download many files you can find on the internet, including full support for online videos from popular video sharing sites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook…
• Free Download Manager – It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license. Can download videos from many popular video-sharing sites.
• FlashGet – One of the oldest free download managers on the internet. Through, above two are way better than this one. Anyway, recently they have added support for flash file downloads.

Online Download Tools and Services

There are many available download tools and services on the internet that can give you opportunity to download and even convert downloaded online videos. Works online, on any today’s modern web browser.

• Best Collection – My own collection of the best online tools to download and convert online videos.

Video Downloading Applications

Video sharing web sites and services on the internet are extremely popular today. Because of that, many stand-alone desktop applications are created for that purpose – just to download videos easily from your desktop, anytime and anywhere it’s possible.

• vDownloader – One of the best and most quality application to download videos online from your desktop. Also, allowing you to search for videos directly in this application. Supports all popular video sharing web sites and little more (my review).
• Video Downloader Collection – I have collected for you few separated applications that can help you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Blip.tv, Break, Dailymotion, MySpace Video, Hulu and Veoh. All applications are free to download and install.

Firefox Extensions

Firefox is one of the most popular and one of the fastest web browsers on the internet. Firefox wouldn’t be so popular, if there are not so many third-party extensions and addons with which you can drastically improve and expand Firefox functionality. Below extensions allows you to download video files from your favorite web browser directly.

• Media Converter – Download and convert online videos directly from your browser without the need for special software. This is a video downloader and video converter in one simple extension.
• DownloadHelper – The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries. Unbelievable list of the supported web sites and services – updated regularly.
• Fast Video Download – Download video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com, Blip.tv, Spike, MyVideo.de, YourFileHost, zippyvideos.com, yikers.com, vimeo.com and more video sharing web sites completely for free.
• Flash Video Resources Downloader – This extension keeps up to date on video sites when they make updates to stop from being downloaded and is constantly adding new sites. It just adds a small icon to the status bar of your Firefox browser.