However, many websites continue to offer videos encoded in the Flash (flv) format. For example, it’s fairly easy to download MPEG-4-encoded content and play those videos on your Mac and iOS devices because MPEG-4 is natively supported on these devices. And because there is, it’s not uncommon to seek ways to capture that video for later viewing on other devices or when an Internet connection isn’t available.Ĭapturing Web video can be a one- or multi-step process, depending on how the original content is encoded and protected. There’s so much, in fact, that it’s hard to watch everything you want to when you’re sitting down in front of your computer. If you’ve spent more than a couple of hours on the Web you understand that the thing is choked with videos-from YouTube to Vimeo to news and entertainment sites.
