gHacks technology news » transcode video http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Bywifi Video Streaming Downloader http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/07/bywifi-video-streaming-downloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/07/bywifi-video-streaming-downloader/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:02:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/07/bywifi-video-streaming-downloader/ Bywifi Video Streaming Downloader is a software program for the Windows operating system that can speed up, download and transcode web video streams. It integrates itself nicely in several web browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox and works with popular video portals like Youtube, Dailymotion or MySpace. The application will run silently in the system tray. Once a website with an embedded video is loaded it will automatically display an overlay and speed up the loading time of that video to avoid pauses during playback.

A click on the Download will open a download window that contains name and download path suggestions. These can be changed in the interface if they are not to the user’s liking. A click on OK will download the selected video using the preferences shown in the download window.

Another interesting option is to transcode videos automatically by clicking on the transcode button. This brings up another menu with options to select the file format, quality and size.

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The video streaming downloader will also display a small window with download information that include the current bitrate and status. It is not really clear how the video acceleration works. Videos seemed to load a bit faster but this could have been also caused by a good connection. If you test the application let us know if it was able to speed up video playback noticeably.

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