How To Download Free Hulu Movies To Your Computer
I’m a big fan of Hulu. It lets me catch up on my favorite shows, and, thanks to generous advertisers, doesn’t cost me a dime. Hulu has new programs, reruns, and full-length movies.
One problem, though. Hulu videos stream in Flash video, and there wasn’t any way to download and save programs for mobile viewing. That was true until I read up on the appropriately-named Hulu Video Downloader, a simple yet powerful little program, for which I have yet to find a free equal.
Using HVD couldn’t be much easier. Once you navigate to your desired program in your browser of choice, highlight and copy (Ctrl+C) the page’s URL. If it’s from a supported site, it will appear in HVD’s top field automatically. From there, you select the format for your target file, and click Add. HVD takes over from there, downloading and converting the video file.
Video formats available in the free version include MPEG2, AVI, and native FLV. To convert to other file formats, such as iPod or PSP, we suggest the recently-reviewed VideoSpiritLite. The GOM Player can playback FLV video files without conversion.
Once the download’s complete, you simply open the resulting video file in your favorite media player. Now you need not worry about episodes of your favorite show “expiring” from the site. I wish now that I had found this program before Dollhouse episodes started disappearing.
If you want to download HD versions of the shows, or download more than one show at a time, you’ll need to upgrade to the pro version, which lets you pull videos from a dozen other sites besides Hulu.
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(By) Tim Watson is a full-time student, husband, father of two, and head of Dork Lotus Enterprises. He's on Twitter @TimDub.
My favorite show to catch on Hulu is “In Plain Sight”, a show about US Marshals in New Mexico. I will have to try this tool out. Thanks for writing about it!
I recently lost my cable T.V. But i had my internet still on and HULU kept me up to date with my favorite shows like Burn Notice,royal pains, and to Lmao Family guy. I will definitely check out This down loader.Thanks for the great post this tool will Truly be valuable.
One bad thing is this site only allows US traffic.
Sounds wonderful only if I could find the download link. I have been thru so many links only to be sent to the home page. Appreciate help for this inexperienced geek.
Very detailed explanation to download movie into PC.
This working perfectly.
The problem is…….you have to buy the Pro edition($34) AND the extra pack($10) to get HULU. Go figure
Downloaded it finally after jumping through a bunch of hoops, and it doesn’t work. I guess it is like Leeon says you have to pay to upgrade to Pro to download anything with it. So…No, it is not free.
GetFLV is the most popular Hulu Downloader, Converter and Player chosen by millions of people.
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I’d rather use Tunebite, it downloads from hulu and other sites like this, even music from music web sites. Besides that it converts many files into the formats I need, so I don’t have to get 2 software for downloading and for converting.
Cool tool except I sure as heck would not waste my time or HD space on Obama’s Homecoming Open off Hulu but hey…
GetFLV is the most popular Hulu Downloader, Converter and Player chosen by millions of people.
Download Hulu shows, videos and movies easily with great speed.
Auto resume on broken downloads.
Easily convert downloaded Hulu videos for your portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, etc.
Play downloaded Hulu video offline with GetFLV Player.