How to Download ABC News Videos

ABC is one of the big three television networks (CBS, ABC and NBC) in America where you can always find live news video podcasts, world news videos from abcnews.go.com and popular TV shows at present like True Blood from abc.go.com.

But many people would get frustrated since they always fail to download ABC videos for offline playback with the common way. This is because ABC streams news videos, radios and TV shows over RTMP proprietary protocol, namely, they are protected.

Fortunately, we have Youtube Video Downloader and Converter which is dedicated to downloading RTMP/RTMPE video streams. With it, you can fully enjoy the contents from ABC news website. Now just follow me to see how it works step by step.

Step 1: Find your favorite news video podcasts/ world news videos

To find your desired news videos or TV shows from ABC TV network in a more convenient way, you can try a new way as below instead of logging on to abcnews.go.com and abc.go.com respectively in a traditional way.

First of all, you need to download Windows Video Downloader on your PC and launch it after installation.

Then click on "Online Video" on the primary interface and there'll be tons of website tabs. Select "ABC News" and enter the keywords of your desired news videos or TV shows, it will help you find them within minutes.

Step 2: Download ABC news videos/TV shows from abcnews.go.com/abc.go.com

When you complete step 1, double click your target video to play it with the inbuilt video player and you'll see a "Download" button on the top right side of the video. Click it and the video will be added to the downloading tasks immediately.

Step 3: Convert format of the downloaded ABC videos

Within minutes, your desired ABC news videos and TV shows will be downloaded to your PC. However, nowadays people prefer to enjoy them on iPad, iPhone, etc. rather than on PC, it's essential for you to convert the downloaded ABC news videos to other optimum formats. Fortunately, Windows Video Downloader makes format conversion as easy as the following three clicks.

Click on the "Downloaded" tab to find the video that you want to convert to other formats like MP4, WMV, M4V, etc. Click the "Convert" button beside it and there'll a drop-down menu, select a format you need and click "OK" to get it done.

In addition to that, Windows Video Downloader also supports downloading online videos from other 100+ famous video-sharing sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Ted, etc. besides ABC News. And it works well on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP. So what are you waiting for? Come and give it a try!

FYI, you can click here to see how to download videos from the other two big television networks—how to download NBC videos and how to download CBS videos. As to Mac user, you can turn to Mac Video Downloader, which is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6 and 10.5.