If you ever wanted to watch your favorite Youtube video but do not want to wait for it to finish downloading, there is a free portable video capture tool that does the job.  Using WebVideoCap, a portable video capture tool created by Nirsoft, you may download while watching it on the web.  This video capture tool will automatically save videos that are played on websites to a folder on the local computer system.  You just need to start the capturing with a single click on the Start Capture button in the WebVideoCap interface. This can be very helpful for users who regularly download videos from video portals.

Screenshot of WebVideoCap

WebVideoCap supports the following web video stream formats:

* Flash video files (with .flv extension)
* Microsoft Windows media files (with .wmv extension)
* RTSP streams. (RTSP protocol is used by many news and live TV/radio Web sites)
* MMS streams. (MMS protocol is used by many news and live TV/radio Web sites)

In addition, there are other settings available in WebVideoCap like Capture buffer size, scan method (Raw sockets and WinPCap) and save folder location.  If the videos that you capture are corrupted, increasing this ‘Buffer Size’ value may solve the problem.

Do note that certain videos that has interuptions such as those that needs age verifications cannot be saved by WebVideoCapture since it interrupts the video capturing process.  Other than that, it works like a charm. Plus this video capture tool works under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista systems and is is easy to use.

Do sound off if you have other video capture tool which performs even better at the comment section

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