Download ONLINE. No Software Required.

Yes, you read that right. You can download Megavideo videos for free online without any software installations which load bunch of spywares and adwares into your hard drive.

For starters, Megavideo is a video hosting site, which unlike other video streaming websites like YouTube, DailyMotion and the like, has no upward time limit for videos. The range of content on Megavideo has been similar to its parent data sharing website  Megaupload – [ if you know what I mean]. The catch here is that Megavideo allows non-premium users to view only 72 minutes of content at once. After this time is exhausted, the video streaming is halted. There are other work-arounds as mentioned in my post here [Firefox Hack: How to watch Unrestricted Full videos on Megavideo]. But if you are one of those, who just want it downloaded on your PC,Mac whatever, just follow the instructions below.

Step 1: Go to the page of the Megavideo video that you wish to download. Copy the URL of the video. This can be found in the addressbar, or if you are watching the video from a blog/website which has the embedded video, double click on the video will take you to the original video source website.

Step 2: Copy the URL of the page, and now go to ClipNabber.com

Step3: Paste the URL in the text-space where it says: Paste the URL Below. Now click the button : Nab Video!
This opens up another larger text space which asks to paste the HTML source code of the video page.

Step4: Go back to the video page, and copy its source code. In Firefox, Chrome, Opera this can be done by pressing Ctrl+U. Or just right-clicking on the page, and going to the relevant option ( View Page source, etc.). In IE, it can be done by going to View–> Source, or by right clicking on the video page and choosing View Source.

Step5: Copy the entire Source by selecting all and pressing copy. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C

Step6: Go back to the Clipnabber page and paste the entire source code in the space given. Once this is done, press Nab Video again.

Step7: A video download link similar to the one shown below will appear. Right Click and Save the video file.

Step 8: The video is in FLV format. Once the download is finished, you can play it any standard FLV player viz. SMPlayer, GOM or VLC media player.

Lemme know if it doesn’t work or Clipnabber no longer supports Megavideo. Cheers!

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