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- How to rip FLV with a free FLV ripper?
- Surfing online you will find hundreds of thousands of nice video contents. Some are really worth collecting. But how do you grab the videos to your computer and rip the right part of your own? This article is to show you the easy way to get the Flash videos (FLV) to your computer and rip the FLV with some free tools. It’s very easy but won’t cost you a penny.
The program for downloading FLV is called YouTube FLV Downloader with which you can download any FLV videos from YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Fox, NBC, ABC, etc.
The program for editing the FLV is called FLV Editor Lite with which you can rip FLV, merge FLV, trim FLV, add metadata and cue point to FLV, replace audio, convert MP3 to FLV, rip MP3 from FLV, export SWF and HTML for upload online, etc. You can implement any of your great ideas on FLV. Besides, it cooperates perfectly with YouTube FLV Downloader, and FLV to Video Converter Pro 2.
Now let’s see what we can do to get the FLV and rip FLV with the free FLV ripper.
Download FLV.
1. Download and install the free FLV downloader and you will face the following interface. You can switch to the Capture section and enable the capture function.

2. Go to your browser and click to the page where the video is playing. While the video is buffering or playing, the downloader will capture the URL automatically. And then you can go back to the program to find the URL.

3. Right-clicking on the URL and select Download, you will enable the New Download window. You can name the file; select the destination to put the file; choose which Library to save the file, etc. While done, you can click OK to start the download task.
4. While the video is downloading, you can switch to Downloading section to see the process.

5. As soon as the video is downloaded, you can find it both in History section and Library section. You can right click to select to play it, convert it with FLV to Video Converter, or edit with FLV Editor Lite.

Rip FLV with the free FLV ripper.
Now you get your favorite FLV files on your computer. Here you can get the easy ways to rip the FLV.
1. Download and install the free FLV ripper. And then you can see the following interface.

2. You can import FLV or MP3 with the buttons red-marked in the following picture. With this Lite version, you can import up to 5 files. With Ultimate version, there will be no limitations and with more powerful functions. All files imported will be placed on Resource List where you can double click to play.

3. To edit the clips, you can drag the files to Timeline and edit the clips with buttons on Timeline Toolbar. You can trim, cut, merge FLVs, add metadata and cue point, etc.

To rip FLV, you have several selections with this program.
Rip FLV video and audio.
To rip the FLV video and audio, you can select the clip and click Unlink button. And then you can move them separately or delete video or audio with the “X” button.
You can also output FLV video and FLV audio separately without the help of Unlink button. Just drag the clip to Timeline; click Export FLV button and select FLV (audio only) or FLV (no audio) as the Export type.

Please note: this program only supports output single FLV file. All clips on Timeline will be merged into one file.
Rip FLV to MP3.
You can rip FLV to MP3 with this free FLV ripper too, as long as the original FLV audio codec is MP3. It’s very easy. Just drag the FLV to Timeline and click Export MP3 button on Toolbar.

Rip FLV to AVI, MP4, MPEG, etc.
Actually, you can export FLV to FLV to Video Converter Pro 2. It is free trial. You can rip the FLV to other formats for your portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen, Zune, Pocket PC, etc.

Here are the easy steps to use the converter.
1. Add FLV to the converter by clicking the button or by exporting FLV to FLV to Video Converter Pro 2 in FLV Editor Lite.
2. Select the FLV on list and you can do some simple editing to the file.
3. You can change output path in Export to box. And select output format in Export format box.
4. After all settings, you can go to Convert section and click Start to rip the FLV.
Have a try now and you will find the free FLV ripper exactly what you want.

