1) When you click on a video thumbnail, the video play page appears. Below the video is the button. Click on this to download the video to your computer. Some Youtube and Google videos need to be renamed and .flv extension added.

2) If you wish to play the .flv videos on your computer, a .flv player is required, because most media players (ie Quicktime, Windows Media Player, etc) do not support playback of .flv videos. We offer two very good .flv players for free: the standalone Mediastore FLV Player that you drag and drop the video onto it to play and Mediastore Play FLV utility that allows your Windows Media Player to play all .flv files. Both players support playing the video by clicking on the .flv file itself.

Mediastore FLV Player	Mediastore Play FLV
Open source from Martijn de Visser	Open source from Barend.nu

3) Uploading the .flv videos to an ipod, PSP, or other device involves converting the file to the format specific to the portable device, and unfortunately this convertor software is not free. They offer trials, but they watermark the whole video or limit the length of video to convert. If you know of anyone offering a good, free .flv to MP4 and 3GP converter app, then please let us know. In the meantime we are working on building one. Here are the .flv convertor apps that we have tried and recommend:

AVS Media Video Tools - $39 Which offers a great app to convert from .flv to almost any other format including MP4, 3GP, AVI, WMP etc. For the money you get a DVD ripper app, a video capture app, and a utility to quickly cut out commercials from your video


AVS Media Super Bundle - $69 Includes all the above, plus a nice video editor that edit .flv files then output to most any video file format. It also includes a host of other apps such as a DVD copier, CD Copier, audio editor, ringtone maker, etc etc

There are a couple other similar apps by Moyea and Imtoo (both also $39), but we evaluated them and found the AVS software to be easier to use and offer well defined convert-to file formats, plus the other included apps are a bonus.