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This process also applies for Youtube, MySpace and most streaming video.
Okay, it is just not fun to play video online with slow Internet connection - to have smooth video playback, the best way it is still downloading the whole clip locally and playback. However Google Video does not provide a link for one to download. The movie is played by Google Video Player, which is Online Flash FLV player.

New Method: The easiest method now to download google video is to use online video download service to expose the real URL.

Old Method:
Good news is that Felipe Cepriano over at FelipeCN has found a quick way to download Google Video. The key is to unescape the parameter of the Google Player URL by using a javascript function. In simple instruction:

* Go to Google Video and find a video.
* View the page source code and search for the keyword ‘googleplayer‘
* Copy and paste the videoUrl parameter (all of the characters after the keyword ‘videoUrl=’)
* Press Ctrl-L to go to URL location bar. Type Javascript:unescape(”videoUrl”) where videoUrl should be the last parameter you have copied into the clipboard.
* It should output the actual URL on the broswer, copy and paste that URL onto your browser location bar again to download the FLV movie.
* Play it with a FLV Player.
Source: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/WEB-Design/Flash/FLV-Player.shtml
Thanks L. Ho

R&R Links:
http://feelingtea.com/decode/google/index.php

After I realised that www.downloadgooglevideos.com got shutdown by google, and all the embedded google videos were not working anymore, I decided to come with a new way to put it on your website. I found one, but it’s not that easy as before, but it’s working. I’ll try to explain here how to do it. If anyone finds a better way to do it, please, let me know!



The old code I showed in this page wasn’t working on IE, so I re-wrote this to a better way to embed google videos on your website. Any problem let me know! :)



First you open the page where is the video you want embed at http://video.google.com, then in Firefox you just click on “View Page Info” under the menu of the right-button of the mouse.



Then you go to “Media” tab and copy the link to the flash file, as you can see in the image below:



The URL will look something like this:
“http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2
Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D25036f0c0ef9bf52%26begin%3D0%26len%3D7160%2
6itag%3D5%26urlcreated%3D1134654406%26docid%3D5651279610882414164%26urlcreated
%3D1134654406%26sigh%3Dj-smBnlHLu4CSvFmXYUrfzgZEn4&autoPlay=true”



Now that we have the address of the video file, we have to set a flash code and replace “YOUR CODE HERE” with the one we got before:



If you want that the movie starts paused, you have to change the last option of the link from “autoPlay=true” to “autoPlay=”


I figured out how to make the full screen work

30/12/05



So, to make the full screen mode works, you need to add the following code before the head:



script src="http://video.google.com/jslib/misc.js type="text/javascript">script src="http://ovelha.org/pasteler0/files/videoplay.js type="text/javascript">


I would advice you to download the videoplay.js and save it in another path, because someday I may delete the file. Then you just need to chenge the

with the new path.



Now here you can see a sample video of “Ultra-OverClocking your CPU with Liquid Nitrogen”, from tomshardware.com
Thanks pasteler0 and D. Andrade

All this seems like a real waste of time. You configure your browser once and resolve the problem quicker thereafter.

Setup
1) Surf with Firefox.
3) Install Adblock plugin
3) Set the file formats to prompt you how to handle them in the file settings:

Tools>> Options >> Downloads >> View and edit Actions (button)>> Select file type(s) as necessary >> Change Action (button)..Select “download to my computer”

Thereafter
1) You surf to a Google page, Adblock puts a tab above the video.
2)Click the tab.
3) Cut the url address for the video, shockwave file or whatever
4) Cancel the adblock window
5) Paste the url you cut into the url field of the browser & press enter
6) Firefox allows you to then save it. (You can have it got to your desktop or have firefox prompt you as to the folder)

That may seen longer, but it isn’t. It gives you instant visibility to the url of many obscured files. You just have to be careful that you don’t block the movie with adblock. That’s why you cut and then cancel the adblock confirmation window.
Thanks MOTAR the imperious

If you have Firefox, the most simple, most flexible way is the following greasemonkey user script.

It adds a “download video” link to the right hand side description of each video page.

(Just click on the link, then click install)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/2084.user.js