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How to install firefox plugins
Nov 2nd
In this post, I will show you two ways to install Firefox plugins (add-ons). The last few steps in each method is similar and I’ve put those in PART II. And PART I shows steps for each method separately.
I have used Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4 firefox plugin for this post. But any firefox plugin can be installed with similar steps.
PART I – Installing (2 Methods)
METHOD (1) – “Add to Firefox” – STEPS for installing the plugin directly on firefox:
Step 1. Open Firefox Add-ons website by following this link: Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4. Make sure this website is open with firefox browser.
Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4 Firefox Plugin
Step 2. On the plugin web page you will see a green button named “Add to Firefox”. Click on that button.
Add to firefox button
Step 3. The “Software Installation” window appears. Click “Install Now” button.
Firefox Plugin Software Installation Window
Step 4. The video download helper starts to download. Wait till the download finishes in few seconds.
Video DownloadHelper downloading
METHOD (2) – “Download the .xpi file” – STEPS for downloading the plugin as a .xpi file and installing:
Step 1 . Open Firefox Add-ons website by following this link: Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4. Make sure this website is open with any other browser than firefox.
Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4 Firefox Plugin on non firefox browsers
Step 2. On the plugin web page you will see a green button named “Download Now”. Click on that button.
Download Now Firefox Plugin Button
Step 3. Save the “downloadhelper-4.6.4-fx.xpi” file somewhere on your computer. You will need this file to do the installation later.
Step 4. Open a blank Firefox browser window.
Step 5. Drag to Firefox window, the “downloadhelper-4.6.4-fx.xpi” file that you had downloaded in step 3
Step 6. The “Software Installation” window appears. Click “Install Now” button.
Firefox Plugin Software Offline xpi Installation Window
PART II – Restarting and finalizing installation
Step 1. Click “Restart Firefox” button to finish the installation and restart firefox.
Restart Firefox after plugin installation
Step 2. If the following window shows up click “Restart” button.
Restart Firefox restore tabs
Step 3. Firefox closes itself. Wait till firefox restarts on its own. When Firefox loads again, the plugin should be installed and ready to use (If the Add-ons window appears, just close it) .
Applian Technologies FLV Player FREE
Oct 31st
This is a nice flv player to play the flv files you might have downloaded from websites like youtube. You can download it absolutely free from this website – Applian Technologies FLV Player FREE
Download youtube with DownloadHelper firefox plugin
Oct 31st
For better understanding of the steps, please watch my video on this topic How to download youtube videos with DownloadHelper firefox plugin
A – HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4 firefox plugin:
Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4 is available here.
If you don’t know how to install it, please read my post on How to install firefox plugins
B – HOW TO USE Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4 firefox plugin to download any youtube video as .flv or .mp4 video file:
Step 1. Open a youtube video. I’m opening the following url for this example: 1,000,000 Subscribers!!!
Step 2. Click the down arrow next to DownloadHelper Icon on firefox toolbar. It should look something like the snapshot below. Basically you need to select the type of video that is available for download and click “Download” on the menu.
Video DownloadHelper Download Menu
Step 3. Select the folder where you want to save the video and click save. The video file will be saved in the folder that you selected. Enjoy the video!
DONE!
If you don’t know how to play .flv files you might want to try this free flv player: Applian Technologies FLV Player FREE
There is also another method to download youtube videos: How to download youtube videos using keepvid.com
Super encoder
Oct 30th
Super Encoder Conversion to Mp3
The SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer is a very powerful free audio/video conversion software. It can perform so many conversions without any additional plugins or codecs. It is just an unbelievably smart piece of software!
Creative Zen Mp3 Mp4 player
Oct 30th
Creative Zen Mp3 Mp4 player
Creative zen is a very good mp3 mp4 player.
I’l list some of the pros and cons over here
Pros:
-Good quality of audio and video playback
-good battery backup of upto 30 hours for audio and 5 hours for video
-has extendable memory card slot
Cons:
-can easily get scratches and fingerprints on the front panel and screen.
-the files stored in sd card does not have the normal features like playlist and albums.. they are just organised as directory heirarchy.
Youtube to creative zen player video conversion
Oct 30th
Please read my previous post to learn how to download youtube video as .flv file.
When you have downloaded the flv file, follow these easy steps to convert the video to the format that creative zen will play without any problems!
1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.
Output Container: AVI
Ouput Video Codec: MPEG-4
Output Audio Codec: mp3
FFmpeg or MEncoder: FFmpeg
Video Scale Size: 320:240
Aspect: 4:3
Frame/Sec: 30
Bitrate kbps: 1008
Sampling Frequency: 22050
Channels: 2
Bitrate kbps: 64
2. Drag and drop the .flv file to the super encoder file list.
3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button
4. when asked to select “Rendered file optimizer”, select DX50 – Best with DivX5/DivX6 decoders and click ok.
5. when the coversion is complete, the file should be ready to be just copied to Zen mp3/mp4 player using Zen Media Explorer without any more zen conversion!
How to download youtube videos
Oct 30th
Follow the easy steps below and you can download any youtube video
Download youtube video as .flv or .mp4 file
a. go to http://keepvid.com/
b. paste your youtube url where it says “Enter URL of video page here – example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3V5a8mDTW6k” and press download button
keepvid – Enter URL of video page
c. when the download links are shown.. click the download link to download either as .flv or .mp4 file.
keepvid – download link
If you don’t know how to play the .flv files you might want to try this free flv player: Applian Technologies FLV Player FREE
There is also another method to download youtube videos: How to download youtube videos with DownloadHelper firefox plugin
Convert video to mp3
Oct 30th
1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.
Super Encoder Conversion to Mp3
You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.
2. Drag and drop any video file to the super encoder file list.
3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the mp3 file saved in the same folder as input file
Convert audio to mp3
Oct 30th
1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.
Convert audio to mp3 – Settings
You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.
2. Drag and drop any audio file to the super encoder file list.
3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the mp3 file saved in the same folder as input file
How to convert FLV to MP3
Oct 30th
There will be times when you have music as an FLV file that you had downloaded from youtube or other similar sites and you might be wondering what to do with the file. Here are some simple steps to convert those FLV files to MP3 format to be able to play and enjoy it in your mp3 player or computer!
1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.
Super Encoder FLV to MP3 Conversion
You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.
2. Drag and drop the FLV file to the super encoder file list.
3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the MP3 file saved in the same folder as the FLV file!