I use Orbit Downloader available here to download from most websites. With Orbit comes a handy little extension called "Grab ++" that will rename the file for you and make things all that much easier on you. The ones that it won't rename end up being simply "getvideo" and you need to go back through them and name them yourself. Another advantage to downloading a file and watching it from the file rather than on a web page is quality. When they create a feed they set up a frame rate buffer system that chops out every few frames of video and sound to speed up the streaming process. This means that you will hear and see a big difference between seeing it online and playing it as a file. Both of these are absolutely FREE.
To view the files I use one of two viewers. My first choice prog is VLC FLV player, available here. My second is Wimpy Flv player and you can get that here. These also are completely FREE
There are a couple of reasons why I use both at different times. One would be the video codec used to compress the file when it was made made might cause the video to skip on VLC whereas it usually will not skip on Wimpy, VLC is the better of the two but it's quite a big app and it's made for hundreds of file types. Wimpy is as it claims to be "just a wimpy little player" made just for FLV files. The other reason I like to sometimes use Wimpy is it's a stand-alone app, meaning it doesn't need to be installed. What this means is you can throw a couple of movies or a bunch of music vids on your portable flash stick or drive and put a copy of wimpy on the drive with the files and you can bring with you when you go out for a visit and watch with a friend without having to mess with installing anything on their computer
Another note tho is with VLC Media player I very strongly recommend you get the addon package "also free" because it will add on several codecs needed to play even other file types and increase it's functionality in use.
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