10 Free Online Video Downloaders

18 Free Online Video Converters and Internet Video Downloaders

It seems like everyone these days is downloading, watching, and sharing videos from video-sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, Twitter, Facebook, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Myspace, Veoh, Break, and a ton of other similar sites. Whether you want to watch the video on your iPod while working out, insert it into a PowerPoint presentation to add some spice, or simply download a video into windows movie maker or itunes for editing, it’s quite essential to know how to download, convert, and play these videos.

There are basically two ways to download videos off the Internet and that’s how I’ll split up this post: either via a web app or via a desktop application. Personally, I like the web applications better simply because you don’t have to clutter up and slow down your computer with all kinds of software! We have test all the websites, don’t worry, they are safe without any viruses and spyware, they will not ruin your computer at all.

This guide is manily about Video Converter, if you want to convert DVD or rip copyright DVD movie, you may refer to this DVD conveting and ripping guide.

Or after you download the internet videos to your computer, you may want to burn them to DVD to play on your DVD player, then this Step by Step DVD burning guidewould help you a lot.


Free Online Video Downloader and Video Converters

Free Online Video Converter - Zamzar

Zamzar is a free online file conversion web application that can not only convert videos off the Internet to AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MP4, MOV, etc, but also converts between audio, image, and document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your favorite format.

Free Online Video Converter - Media Converter

Media Converter is similar to ZamZar and vixy.net, but requires you to create an account and log in. Also, it seems like it only supports downloading and converting videos from YouTube. You can also download their video download program, but it only supports 5 sites.

Free Online Video Converter - vixy

Vixy.net is another site that not only downloads online videos, but will also convert them AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don’t have to worry about downloading a FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format. (Same as Zamzar)

Free Online Video Converter - Video Downloader

VideoDownloader is a FireFox extension, but also allows you to paste in any URL from many sites such as Blip.TV, iFilm, and even social networking sites like MySpace. You can also download a free FLV player from their site to play the videos.

Movavi Online is a free online web service that lets you download videos from YouTube, Google and other video-sharing sites and save them to your iPhone, iPod, cellphone, and popular video formats: AVI, MPEG, MOV, FLV, MP4, 3GP.

Free Online Video Converter - ClipNabber

ClipNabberallows you to download videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc by simply copying and pasting the URL. You’ll then get a link whereby you can download the file to your computer, iPod, iPhone, or any other media player. You’ll need to have an FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use!

Free Online Video Downloader - Download Video

This site is a foreign site, but is easy to use and supports most of the major sites. You can also download a free FLV player off their site to play videos from YouTube.

Free Online Video Downloader - Hey Watch

Hey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats including HD very quickly. The graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an FTP server or to online storage.

Free Online Video Downloader - Kcoolonline

According to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc. You’ll have to rename the files you download from YouTube with the .FLV extension at the end.

Free Online Video Converter - keepvid

KeepVid also supports just about any video sharing site out there and the only difference about this site is that it also has a Top Videos section, so you can quickly download the most watched videos around the web.

Free Online Video Converter - vidownloader

VidDownloader supports about 10 sites including the major ones and can download the videos in DivX AVI format. It’s very easy to use and can also extract only the audio from a video by choosing “Just Audio” on the download page. You don’t have to worry about having an FLV player since it converts the files to Windows format.

Free Online Video Downloader - Videoronk

VideoRonk searches across multiple video-sharing sites such as Google Video, YouTube, MetaCafe and DailyMotion to find the most popular videos on each of them. You can either watch them on VideoRonk or download them to your computer in FLV format.

Free Online Video Converter - youtubex

YoutubeX, as the name suggests, allows you to download videos from YouTube. Obviously, it only supports YouTube, but it has a couple of other features, such as the ability to play your video on the site and find popular videos quickly.


Free Video Downloaders and Video Converters for your Desktop

Free Online Video Downloader - orbit

Orbit is by far the best desktop application I have seen for downloading any type of social media off the Internet. It can download videos and music from MySpace, YouTube, Pandora, Rapidshare, and lots more. It has a great interface and carries a very small foot print.

Free Online Video Converter - DVD Studio Pack

All-in-one DVD Video Converter Suite includes FOUR outstanding multimedia applications: DVD Ripper, Video Converter, DVD Creator and Audio Converter. rip copyright-protected DVD to all popular video and audio formats with various customized settings, convert video among all popular video and audio formats , copy DVD with 1:1 ratio on all series of Windows OS, Convert MP4, M4V, MKV, MPA, MPG, MPEG, MOV, 3GP, 3GP2, FLV, VOB, DAT, TS, TP, TRP, M2TS, AVI to DVD and burn movie to DVD easily.

Free Online Video Downloader - VDownloader

VDownloader is a small little application that can download videos from many sites and converts them to AVI or MPG format.

Free Online Video Downloader - firefox add-ons

A useful FireFox add-on that supports more than 60 video sharing sites. It can also download other objects on a web page, such as movies, MP3s, flash files, and Quicktime movies directly.

Free Online Video Converter - youtube downloader

Automatically YouTube video downloading tool and YouTube Converter, download YouTube video, archive YouTube video, and convert flv to avi, wmv, mpeg, mov, m4v, etc. Support website including YouTube, Yahoo, Google Video, Myspace, MSN video, Metacafe, NBC, AOL, ESPN, Veoh, dailymotion, stupidvideos, craftytv, Go, Watch-movies.net, Wegame, Blinkx.com, etc.

Another popular video download application that is very small and very easy to use. You can download videos in batches by entering URLs into a queue and Ares Tube can convert them into different formats such as iPod, MP4, MPG, etc.

Free Online Video Converter - cnet download

YouTube Grabber, Not a very fancy program, it simply takes your URL and downloads the file. No conversion is done and you’ll need to install an FLV player to watch the videos.

Free Online Video Converter - keepv

KeepV downloads videos from YouTube, MySpace, and Google and converts them to either MOV, 3GP, AVI, iPod, or PSP format.

Scott Bailey