As usual I was hopping around the internet and came to a site I had never seen before. They have quite a few videos that you won't see on YouTube or other places.

No, I am not talking about Porn or adult videos, just videos that I thought were funny and that I would like to share with my friends.

The place I found was funnyjunk.com they have quite a few funny and interesting videos.

I came across this video and thought that it would be nice to send it and share it with my friends and also to save to my computer and my Sansa. Unfortunately they don't have anything to allow me to download the video into some kind of Windows type format.

After a little research, I found a way to do just what I want and with very little effort.

The first thing I needed to do was download the video to my computer. I did this using a site called ClipNabber. This site allows you to paste the URL of the site that has a video you want and then you can download it into your computer.

It's very simple to make this happen. All you have to do is, once you see a video you want, go to ClipNabber and paste into the site the webpage of the video you want.

In my case it was http://www.funnyjunk.com/movies/1152/Floating+Cigarette+Trick/ Once you have pasted the address in, you just click on "Nab Video" and the site will give you the download link to the video. Simply "Right Click" and "Save As" and you now have the video on your computer.

The only problem with this is that most videos you download from sites are what's called an FLV file or a Flash Video. Most computers and Windows Media Player, will not play a FLV file. To do this you need to convert it to something Windows likes more, like an AVI or WMV file.

But no biggie, all we need is a FLV Converter. A program to convert the FLV file into an AVI. As a bonus it would be nice if it was free. Welp, we came across this one, the Free FLV Converter

The Free FLV Converter, not only does this but you can search youTube, dailyMotion, google, metacafe videos without opening your browser and you can even watch the videos using the built-in video player.

The software can convert the videos to Avi (xvid, DivX), Ipod, Iphone, 3GP and Psp format (MPEG4 and H.264).

Also as a bonus, this software can also convert all your videos (divx, xvid, mpeg, dvd, avi) to FLV video (Flash video) with an automatic HTML page creation. You will only have to place the files on your website to share your videos with the entire world.

So, once installed I simply ran the Free FLV Converter and converted my Cigarette video into a new AVI file. Now I can send this video to anyone I wish and they can watch it without having to go to a specific website and I can put this on my Sansa if I wish.

You can also convert your new AVI file to just about any other video format, just grab the audio and other things using MediaCoder. But we will save that info for next time. :)

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