A video downloader should be reliable and comfortable to use. What’s meant by that? Reliable means that it should provide the means to download videos from many sites, and that it is regularly updated to stay compatible with video portals if the video site owners make changes to the website or the way videos are streamed to the user computer.
Comfortable means that it should not be complicated to download videos, or even better, that the process of selecting and downloading videos is integrated into the workflow.
FreeMake Video Downloader is a free program to download videos from the Internet. The software supports more than 40 different video sites, the usual suspects, Youtube, Facebook or Google Video are on the list, as are other video portals such as Dailymotion, MTV, Veoh, Megavideo and a good dozen adult oriented video sites.
Video Downloader is a standalone program for Windows, that offers Chrome and Firefox web browser integration in the form of add-ons which are automatically installed during installation on the Windows PC (unless unselected).
It is still possible to use the program without the browser extensions, but the video url would then need to be copied into the application window manually to download videos.
The browser add-ons place a button in the interface that sends the active url to the video downloader.
The main interface lists the downloaded videos with their playing time, size, video format and a small thumbnail. From here it is possible to play them directly in the system’s default video player for the format and to open their download folder on the local hard drive.
A popup window in the main program interface is displayed when a video is send to the application via one of the browser plug-ins, or if a web video address is pasted directly into the program.
The video downloader displays all available quality settings for the video, along with their resolution, size and audio encoding.
It is possible to switch from a pure video downloading mode to extracting only the audio of the video (ideal for ripping mp3 from Youtube videos for instance) or to convert the video after downloading to another video or audio format. Available for selection are among others mp3, mkv and avi.
The download popup may be fine if you download a video occasionally; That changes if you download dozens of video on a day. It is possible to bypass the download selection screen by activating the one-click download mode in the upper right corner of the screen.
Here it is possible to select a quality level and optionally if the video should be converted after download. These settings are then used whenever a video is downloaded by the program.
It is then a matter of clicking on the browser plugin button to download the videos. Everything else is handled by the application in the background.
The options have settings to hide and lock adult videos. Hiding means that the downloaded videos do not appear in the video listing, locking enables parental controls which blocks adult videos from being downloaded a password is entered.
A proxy can be configured under Connections, and it is furthermore possible to enter account information for some video sites. Accounts are necessary to download private videos from the sites.
The program is comfortable to use, especially if one of the browser plugins is used in conjunction with the one-click video download mode.
The biggest limitation is the number of sites. Browser add-ons like Download Helper for Firefox top the 40+ video sites supported by the free video downloader by hundreds of sites.
Windows users can download the latest version of Freemake Video Downloader from the developer website. The software is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
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“Video Downloader is a standalone program for Windows, that offers Chrome and Firefox web browser integration in the form of add-ons which are automatically installed during installation on the Windows PC (unless unselected).”
So, is it a standalone (portable) or a install program which mean you better not use it , as each installed app bloats Windows.
Ilev standalone does not mean portable.
So was does it mean describing an application as ‘standalone’ ?
In this context I tried to express that it can be used without a particular web browser, i.e. that it is not a plugin. But I get your confusion, just looked on Wikipedia and saw that it can have both meanings, and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standalone_software
ummm you forgot something in your post….
can you guess what it is????
hmmm.
How about a link to the app your talking about?
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/03/26/freemake-video-downloader-download-videos-from-the-internet/
I get a big FAIL for my last comment….
didnt want to paste that link I wanted to say this:
How does this app stack up to StreamTransport?
better or worse or equal?
Thanks for adding the link but it goes to this page right here… your ghacks review.
try using this one instead.
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_downloader/