It turns out that the JaviMoya site might have actually cribbed its code from another site. Up until a few days ago, JaviMoya had even cribbed this other site's look-and-feel. In any case,
KeepVid does a very good job of saving Flash video from more than 30 sites like Google Video, iFilm, YouTube, Grinvi, ThatVideoSite, and more. Their short
FAQ tells you how to convert the .FLV into other formats, too. Another site that purports to do the saving is
FileLeecher.
If you want a standalone program to do the thing with, you can use
Vdownloder, a program that can download videos from Youtube, Google video and Grinvi and then save them in AVI or MPG format.
A good site for more easily searching through YouTube for videos you want is
Qoogle. Just type in the search term in the box, and it brings up thumbnails and captions of the sought-after item. Click on the thumbnail and a pop-up vid player allows you to view it. Then pop the URL into KeepVid or whatever and it is on your hard disk.
And a good search engine for files on the RapidShare network is
RapidShared.
Now, if anyone could tell me how to save those Flash videos from the
AXE "Order of the Serpentine" site, or from news sites such as ABCNews.com, I would be a happy camper indeed!