Streaming Video Downloader (formerly FLV Video Downloader) can save videos from websites to your PC just by watching them. Streaming Video Downloader is an easy to use software which helps users save Flash videos (including streaming videos) from Internet websites like Google Video to your PC in either flv or avi file formats as you watch them in your browser.

Streaming Video Downloader Features:
1. Save videos automatically, no need to do anything!
Streaming Video Downloader automatically detects when you begin watching new video in your browser, and begins saving it immediately, at the same time asking you whether or not you want to save this video. If you do, you just click Save, and if you don't, you click Cancel, and the software will stop downloading it. That's it! You don't have to look for URLs and paste them somewhere, like you do with other downloaders; simply watch and save simultaneously!

2. Save Flash FLV, Silverlight, QuickTime, Real Videos!
Nowadays the most popular video format on the Web is Flash video served as FLV/MP4, however other types of videos are also common, including: Microsoft Silverlight served as Windows Media Video - WMV, Apple QuickTime served as MOV, and RealMedia served as RM/RAM. Streaming Video Downloader lets you save all these types of videos*!

3. Saves High Quality videos from YouTube and other sites as MP4
YouTube and some other video websites now offer the capability to watch videos in High Quality (HQ) mode. The physical dimensions of the video, color depth, and other settings are significantly better in HQ modes. This is why you should save HQ version of a video if it is available. Streaming Video Downloader, starting from version 3.0, lets you easily save even HQ videos. This works exactly the same as with regular FLV videos, the only difference being that HQ videos are saved as files with mp4 extension (since they are MPEG-4 type videos, and not flash videos).

4. Supports ALL versions of ALL Browsers
As long as you can watch a particular video in your browser, you can save it with Streaming Video Downloader! Thus, the software supports Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1+, Google Chrome, Opera 8+, Safari, Netscape, and others!

5. Saves videos from protected websites
The problem with url-based downloaders is that they simply do not work for password-protected videos and websites! Only Streaming Video Downloader can save such protected videos. Even more so, it can save streaming videos, or videos whose links expire too quickly! Remember, as long as you can watch a video in your browser, then Streaming Video Downloader can save it for you!

6. Supports 99.9% websites that feature videos
In outstanding majority of cases, as long as the website offers videos in the video formats supported by the program, you can save it!

7. No bandwidth wasted!
Videos are saved as you watch them (in fact, you don't even have to watch them per se - all you really need to do is load a page with video on it). This is especially useful for older dial-up connections, or for videos that are slow to download.

8. Does not get in your way!
The software silently runs in the background, monitoring incoming Internet traffic for flash videos. Yet it is easily accessible from system tray in the lower-right corner of your screen should you need to see the main window.

9. Very facile on system resources
What's really nice about this product is that it requires only very few system resources. In fact it requires so few, you won't even notice it's actually running!

10. Make your saved videos accessible to portable devices
You can easily save videos in avi format, provided you have the right codecs installed, so you can watch them on various portable devices, like iPods, smart phones, media players, etc.

Streaming Video Downloader can run in the background, in system tray, and will ask you to specify if and where to save video when you begin watching one. No need to find and paste URLs (like in numerous gadgets) - everything is done automatically!

It saves you time and bandwidth, because videos are saved as they play on web page in browser. It features hot key access, simultaneous downloads, flv to avi conversion, and more. It is easily configurable, and for example can be started automatically with Windows.

Requirements:
* NET Framework

Limitations:
* Trial version is limited to 5 downloads per session, and 6MB per download (flash videos that exceed this size limit will be saved only partially).
* Trial Version does not allow you to save Flash Videos in compressed AVI format.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $20.00, you can free download and get a free trial.