gHacks technology news » video-downloader http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Youtube Batch Downloader http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/youtube-batch-downloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/youtube-batch-downloader/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 12:45:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4110 Youtube addicts take note, 1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader (via ShellCity) provides access to download multiple videos from Youtube at once and even converts them into the desired format during that process. The standalone application can download from almost any Youtube page and supports downloading from individual pages, channels, playlists, favorites, users and group pages.

Batch downloading from Youtube works on pages with more than one video on a page but not from the search results. The Download All or Download button becomes only active on selected pages. Say you want to download all videos by one publisher. To do so you open the publisher profile at Youtube and click on the Videos link that links to all videos. Only that page activates the download all button which was inactive on the profile page.

1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader is a great application for hardcore Youtube fans who also want to download a lot of videos to their computer. All videos are downloaded into the My Documents\My YouTube folder sorted by username.

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Downloads continue even when browsing away from the page where the download was initiated. One thing that is missing is a stop button. It is not possible to stop or pause the downloads unless the application is closed completely.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/youtube-batch-downloader/feed/ 13 Video Downloader aTube Catcher http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/07/video-downloader-atube-catcher/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/07/video-downloader-atube-catcher/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:06:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/07/video-downloader-atube-catcher/ If you are looking for a complete video downloader that supports a wide variety of video portals and offers lots of extras not found in any other video downloader you might want to check out aTube Catcher (via Genbeta). The software supports 90 video portals currently including Youtube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Myspace, Dailymotion, Bebo, Break, Metacafe and Stage6.

Videos can be downloaded by pasting their url in the tool. If you want to download more than one file you can use the queue manager or provide the url of the Youtube playlist which will download the videos that you want from it. Videos are automatically converted into another format (avi, mpg, mp4, psp, 3gp, mov..) after download if you choose so.

Some functions of the utility are still experimental but very promising. Users can log into Youtube for instance to download private videos from the website. The video capture function will monitor a network card which will automatically download videos from the supported websites to a folder on your hard drive.

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Specific templates can be chosen to convert videos. Templates are available for (S)VCD, DVD, iPOD, PSP plus several more. I experienced one crash during my test but other than that the software is running solid and stable.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/07/video-downloader-atube-catcher/feed/ 4 Download Avis from Youtube and other video sites http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/01/download-avis-from-youtube-and-other-video-sites/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/01/download-avis-from-youtube-and-other-video-sites/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:44:32 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/01/download-avis-from-youtube-and-other-video-sites/ All of my friends hate the flv format that Youtube and other social video sites such as dailymotion and break use to show video content on their websites. Most download managers, like the Firefox extension Video Downloader, offer the flv files as downloads which most multimedia players do not support at all. You could add a flv plugin to add flash video support to your media player but there is an easier solution to this.

The website viddownloader converts the videos to avi before it displays a download link. This is probably not the most elegant solution if you want to download hundreds of videos but it works fine if you only want to download a few videos. You supply the url of the video that you want to download and viddownloader does the rest automatically and displays a download link afterwards. It supports the following sites at the moment: Youtube, Break, Dailymotion, Myspace and Pornotube.

The conversion took just a few minutes and depends on the length of the video mainly. Not sure if video conversions are queued or how viddownloader handles several requests at the same time. Download speeds were fine as well. I was able to download with about 100K which is ok for videos of that size. The flv video was about 7 megabytes in size while the converted avi was almost triple that size with 19 megabytes.

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Enter Google Video Downloader. This online script does the following. If you find a video at video.google.com that you would like to download all you need to do is copy the url the video is located and paste it into a text field called Decode Url on their site.

A script automatically converts the url and displays the download link and the watch it link. If you click download you can download the film to your computer. Please note that the movies are
in flv format, so you will need a movie player that is capable of playing those files. They provide a link to one on the results page.

Head over to dev2.traxio.net/projects/googlevideo/and take a look if this concept sounds interesting to you.

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