You have probably seen many articles and tips on this site about downloading videos from YouTube, however if you want to download from other sites a tool you need to check out is xVideoServiceThief.

This open source tool allows you to download from (at the time of writing) 55 popular websites which use embedded videos. Additionally, xVideoServiceThief boasts the following features:

• Convert the downloaded videos to Mpeg, DivX, etc.
• Simultaneous downloads!: Download more than one video at same time
• Automatic Updates! keep the xVideoServiceThief updated automatically (to add/update support for new sites)

If you like to keep videos on your hard drive, this tool is ideal because you don’t have to worry about going into your browser cache and renaming files, etc, etc. It is straightforward and completely free.

An interesting little program I came across which allows you to view just about any information on your media files is MediaInfo. From their description:

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.

Simply put, that is what it does. You can extract just about any information you can think of from vitually any audio or video file format. Additionally, you can export this information to a text file format and the available command line interface gives you the ability to create a batch file to quickly gather information on your entire media library.

While I personally cannot think of any true practical applications for this program, if you can please drop a comment.

Have you ever seen a video on YouTube or any other video sharing website that you wanted to download, but didn’t have the option to? Luckily, there are many ways to do this. In this article, we’ll explore several of your options, both web-based and software based. Continued