You might have the caps of (screen captured images)of videos in forums and other websites . There are many software tools to get images from video files . RichFLV is one one such application which can capture image screenshot specially from Youtube or FLV videos . RichFLV is not just a screen capture tool ,its an FLV editor and can convert and modify FLV media into number of other formats .

Earlier we reviewed Adobe AIR applications like Google analytics ,Facebook and Twitter desktop clients . RichFLV is a multimedia software and it doesn’t use a web service . So it gives a broad idea about the range of Flex and Adobe AIR applications .Adobe AIR applications are platform independent . So RichFLV will run smoothly on Windows ,Linux and Mac .

How to use Rich FLV to capture images from FLV videos:

Open a Youtube video and pause at suitable location where need to get an image .
Now move on to export tab and select PNG or JPEG as images format . Similarly as you can see in the screenshot , FLV files can be saved into formats like FLV(with no sound) ,XML, SWF (Flash) and  mp3 . There are some more options to stitch ,edit and modify FLV videos .

RichFLV is completely free ,but you will need to get Adobe AIR framework for installation .

Download RichFLV and get photos Youtube FLV videos .

We have already covered an online utility to Convert Youtube video to Mp3 . This service is only useful for people with internet connection and extracting videos are not supported there .FLV Extract is a free Windows utility that can extract audio and video file from Youtube FLV videos and save them as mp3 and AVI files respectively .FLV Extract is completely free and its available with source file .

FLV Extract

First of all copy the required FLV files and transfer them to Windows desktop . Open FLV Extract application and drag the files into it . Extracted MP3 and AVI files from target Youtube videos will then appear instantly on desktop . FLV extract is a very lightweight application  . It has only a size of 80KB provided you have .NET framework installed on your computer .

Download FLV Extract and extract audio and video from Youtube videos

Youtube, MetaCafe, DailyMotion and all other online streaming websites in the world uses Adobe Flash technology to play web videos. The web videos uploaded to these sites are converted to FLV format before they are uploaded to streaming portals.  Also its not possible to download and play these online FLV files. However, there are some special applications that can be used to download FLV videos and play theme offline. Direct FLV player is a similar standalone Windows FLV video player compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Foto2Avi is free Windows software that can convert your photos into popular video formats like AVI ,MPEG and FLV . The built-in photo effects and video editor of Foto2Avi would help you in creating beautiful video albums , presentations and Youtube videos for your photo sessions .There are hundreds of logos ,sound and animations that you won’t be able to see in freeware applications . The only limitation is your imagination .Download photo to AVI ,MPEG ,FLV converter .

Photo to AVI ,MPEG ,FLV converter (Foto2Avi 2.3)

Foto2Avi 2.3 supports bmp/jpeg/png images -mp3/ogg/wav audio files to produce high quality videos in AVI , MPEG and FLV file formats .

Add  selected photos to the time line as shown above . A custom sound file can be imported as a background music for the whole video frame .

As I said earlier , there are so many effects that we can apply to the photos for amazing output video files .

Few of them are ,
Logos
Subtitles
25 Transitions (Flippage,Swirl…)
Basic Effects (Brightness/Noise/Fade in/Fade out)
9 Advanced Effects (Distort, Ripple)
9 Animations

The latest version of Foto2Avi supports high definition Youtube videos .

Download photo to AVI ,MPEG ,FLV video converter (Foto2Avi 2.3) .

You might have seen our post regarding a method to convert Youtube Videos to MP3 though an online service . VDownloader is another Youtube related software which can save any Youtube video into AVI, MPG, MP4, iPhone iPod, PSP, 3GP , DVD , VCD, MP3 for free. VDownloader  can search Youtube ,Dailymotion ,Google ,Yahoo videos from its interface and the conversion operation is just a click away .Download VDownloader and convert Youtube videos MPG ,DVD,3GP ,MP4 ,MP3 free.

Download and convert Youtube videos MPG ,DVD,3GP ,MP4 ,MP3 free

VDownloader is completely freeware and Spyware/Adware freeWindows software . It offers FLV conversion to than 10 file formats and with support for Nokia internet tablet , iPhone , iPod and Sony PSP .There is an inbuilt video search tool through which you can search for any video on Youtube ,Dailymotion ,Google ,Yahoo videos and click on download . There is also a browser to preview video files before download .

Download VDownloader and convert Youtube videos to MPG ,DVD,3GP ,MP4 ,MP3 free.