Online Videos are now integral part of daily browsing activity. The online videos sharing websites are being used for many purposes like Songs, Movies, Study Lectures, TV Shows, and many more. Although the high speed of Internet allows easy streaming of theses online videos but users still tend to download their favorite videos for offline view. In this way, they don’t need to visit the website again and stream the video once more to watch it. It is also easy to transfer videos on storage media from one place to another where there is no Internet access or provide it to some friend.
There are many online services available which allows downloading video files from YouTube but users may prefer to download it with some integrated solution in web browser or with standalone software. Also there are fewer services for downloading videos from other sharing websites. Following are the best free online video downloader software which support downloading from almost all video sharing websites in Windows 7. Some of these utilities gets integrated in your web browser and other provide the solution right at your desktop in Windows 7.
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xVideoServiceThief
This tool is open source and free solution for downloading online videos from more than 76 websites. It has an integrated free media converter so the user does not need to employ another tool for conversion of downloaded video file into a desired format. The popular formats supported for video conversion are AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3. This is a pure desktop utility which does not interact with your web browser. The user can add the direct url of video or there is a drag & drop support available. The process of downloading online video with this tool is pretty straight forward in Windows 7. (Download xVideoServiceThief)
Free FLV Converter
It is an all in one solution to search, download and convert online videos from many popular websites like YouTube, DailyMotion, Yahoo, Google Video, MEGAVIDEO, and some others. It is also possible to preview the desired online video to be downloaded by playing. The built-in converter can transform the video format into iPod, iPhone, Avi, 3GP or Psp format. Besides if you have a divx, xvid, mpeg, dvd, avi video, it can be converted into FLV video format. It works flawlessly in 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. (Download Free FLV Converter)
StreamTransport
This utility is another nice combination of online video downloader along with video converter to be used in Windows 7. It supports famous HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, RTMPTE protocols and as a consequence the user is able to download video from popular websites like Hulu, Youtube, Yahoo, Google Video, Dailymotion, Veoh, MegaVideo, CBS, MTV and some others. The utility has an integrated browser which is used to play videos then URL of video is captured automatically and it can be downloaded to local PC. The user should not face a difficulty in downloading online video with this software in 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. (Download StreamTransport)
Orbit Downloader
This is a comprehensive download manager with a great addon named Grab++ which extensively supports downloading of online videos from websites like YouTube, DailyMotion, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace,Veoh, and many others. It also acts as a general FLV downloader thus supporting a lot of video sharing websites. In addition, Orbit Downloader assists in downloading social music from websites like Pandora, MySpace, Bebo, and some others. Grab++ module gets integrated in browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Netscape, Opera, and Maxthon. It has native support for 32 and 64 bit Windows 7. (Download Orbit Downloader)
VideoCacheView
It is a novel idea to download online videos after the users have watched them. The video which has been streamed in user’s web browser is by default saved in cache. This small but software scans the cache of web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome and allows you to save the found videos to any other place for offline viewing sometimes later. (Download VideoCacheView)
GetGo Download Manager
It is a full download manager with additional support of downloading FLV videos from popular video sharing websites. It gets easily integrated in IE and Firefox. High Quality or High Definition videos from YouTube can be easily grabbed. Besides, it also supports Facebook, Google Video, Myspace, MetaCafe, and DailyMotion. Its operation is natively supported in Windows 7.(Download GetGo Download Manager)
Now, it is your decision which one you choose to enjoy downloading online videos in Windows 7.
