Easy or difficult, it’s possible to capture just about any video on the Web. Perian plug-in), you must convert these to a format compatible with iOS devices. VideoLAN client (or in QuickTime Player if you’ve installed the While you can play these videos in a browser or with a third-party application such as the However, many websites continue to offer videos encoded in the Flash (flv) format. For example, it’s fairly easy to download MPEG-4-encoded content and play those videos on your Mac and iOS devices because MPEG-4 is natively supported on these devices. Capturing Web video can be a one- or multi-step process, depending on how the original content is encoded and protected.