

Step 4: Click on the “down arrow” icon and the video will be downloaded within a few minutes. Step 3: Now, play video for some time, then on the top bar, click on the Flash Video Downloader icon. Step 2: Once it’s installed, visit the web page from where you want to download the video. Step 1: Firstly, you need to open the Chrome browser on your PC and install the Flash Video Downloader extension. If the above methods didn’t work out for you, then this method will definitely work for you. You can use the Flash Video Downloader which is a Chrome extension to download JW Player videos. Sorry about that.Although this method (Inspect Element) is also applicable for Firefox and Safari. If the video from JW Player uses HLS Streaming, the chances of you being able to download it are minimal at best. This page has an excellent explanation of HLS Streaming and how it works. It is bad in that it makes accessing the video and keeping it much more difficult.

HLS Streaming is good in that it has given the studios confidence in streaming technology and allows us to enjoy Netflix and others like it. It is used by Netflix to help protect content through encryption and works well when done right. This was apparently invented by Apple to help streamline delivery over networks and breaks the video into chunks, encrypts it and sends it to the player. If none of these methods work, the video may use encrypted HLS Streaming (HTTP Live Streaming).

If none appears, select the extension icon from your browser bar and select to download the video. Install either or both and use them on the page where the video is hosted. It really is a matter of trial and error I’m afraid. Just like the URL method, IDM will work on some JW Player streams and not others.
