Facebook's increasingly used as a platform for sharing video clips with friends and contacts. Members can upload video clips directly from smartphones, mobile devices or webcams and link to video clips on other websites, such as YouTube.
Facebook encodes directly uploaded or recorded video clips with the H.264 video codec and widely-used AAC (MPEG-4 Audio) for audio, muxed inside the main MP4 container. After encoding, Facebook displays the video in Flash format, just like on YouTube.
If you see a Facebook video clip that you like and want to store on your computer's hard drive for posterity, you've probably noticed that there's no direct download link and, generally, Facebook doesn't make it easy for you to download the item to your computer. That's because Facebook wants to keep people coming back to its site to view the video clip. Videos are sticky content, after all.
The good news is that there's a workaround solution available for downloading video clips from Facebook. To download videos, you'll need to equip your Web browser with a video download manager extension, sometimes known as an add-on or plugin. You'll find video downloader add-ons for most Web browser, but the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers offer the widest range of add-ons or plugins.
For Firefox go to Addons.mozilla.org and for Chrome go to Chrome.google.com/extensions. Look specifically for a flash and video downloader. One highly-rated video downloader add-on is the Download Flash and Video add-on. With this tool added to your Web browser you can directly download video and other flash objects from Facebook, Daily Motion, Google Videos and YouTube.
After installing the add-on, downloading the Facebook video clip is straightforward. Either launch the video downloader extension from the browser's menu or, in some cases, click the Download button that the add-on automatically displays next to the video clip to save the video to a computer folder.
If you see a Facebook video clip that you like and want to store on your computer's hard drive for posterity, you've probably noticed that there's no direct download link and, generally, Facebook doesn't make it easy for you to download the item to your computer. That's because Facebook wants to keep people coming back to its site to view the video clip. Videos are sticky content, after all.
The good news is that there's a workaround solution available for downloading video clips from Facebook. To download videos, you'll need to equip your Web browser with a video download manager extension, sometimes known as an add-on or plugin. You'll find video downloader add-ons for most Web browser, but the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers offer the widest range of add-ons or plugins.
For Firefox go to Addons.mozilla.org and for Chrome go to Chrome.google.com/extensions. Look specifically for a flash and video downloader. One highly-rated video downloader add-on is the Download Flash and Video add-on. With this tool added to your Web browser you can directly download video and other flash objects from Facebook, Daily Motion, Google Videos and YouTube.
After installing the add-on, downloading the Facebook video clip is straightforward. Either launch the video downloader extension from the browser's menu or, in some cases, click the Download button that the add-on automatically displays next to the video clip to save the video to a computer folder.
Add-ons are one way, but there are also products that you can use directly without any middleware, like Torch browser. I found out about it only recently and it's super easy and the best part is that you don't need to take care of any add-ons. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip Andrew, I will give it a try.
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