But how to they fare if you want to download a playlist, a user’s favorites, channels or all video responses? Most do not offer automatic options to do that. And the prospect of having to add hundreds of videos individually is not really that great.

Enter Free YouTube Download, a freeware program for Windows that offers single and batch downloads of YouTube videos.

All you need to do is paste a YouTube video url into the interface. Free YouTube download will scan the address on YouTube and add either a single video or multiple videos depending on the type of address.

You can paste single video urls, channels, playlists, user videos, video responses and every other YouTube link that points to one or multiple videos.

YouTube Video downloads include

• complete YouTube playlists and show lists
• all video from YouTube charts
• all video responses to a YouTube video
• all videos of a selected YouTube user or a channel
• all video from the user favorites

The input url, number of videos and the total playing time are displayed in the program interface. You can select an output folder on a local hard drive and the desired output format and definition of the videos. Available are standard resolution files up to 1080p high definition videos. Formats available are mp4, avi and flv.

If you want to download all videos that you have pasted in you can click the download button right away to start the downloading. Sometimes you may not want to download all videos from a specific user, playlist or channel. A click on the Output Name button opens a list of all videos found during the scan.

It is possible to deselect some of the videos so that they won’t be downloaded by the application. Only the YouTube videos that remain selected are then downloaded by Free YouTube Download.

There is also an options button which offers some additional settings. It is possible to add a proxy server, enable accelerated downloads or turn on auto-pasting of YouTube video from the Clipboard. The last option speeds up the process of adding videos to the download queue.

Free YouTube Download is an excellent application for Windows users who want to download multiple videos from YouTube users, channels or playlists. The ability to paste just one link into the application to download hundreds of videos is rarely available in video downloaders.

It offers several additional features that other applications usually do not offer. This includes downloading YouTube videos and embedded YouTube videos from third party websites, RTMP streaming videos and YouTube charts.

The software worked fine during tests on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional operating system. The application can be downloaded at the developer website.

While most users are perfectly happy to watch the video clips online some prefer to download them to the computer. This has a few advantages like being able to watch them multiple times without using additional bandwidth or the ability to convert the videos into formats that can be burned to DVD or copied on mobile devices.

The number of video clip downloaders is nearly uncountable. There are dozens of browser plugins for various websites, the download managers and specific applications created for the purpose. They all cater to different audiences. Some users prefer to have the functionality build into their web browser, others prefer standalone applications that provide advanced features like downloading videos even if the browser is not active.

One popular application to download video clips from currently more than 70 video portals is xVideoServiceThief, a standalone application that uses a dropbox to catch the videos that it should download.

It’s easy to use the video clip downloader. The dropbox can be activated from withing the program interface and stays on top all the time. All that needs to be done is to move the video clip, either the url from the address bar or the link on the page, into the dropbox area. The download starts instantly

Video clips can also be added by pasting urls directly by clicking on the Add Video button in the program’s interface.

The downloads are automatically stored on the computer’s hard drive and by default converted into avi format. It is possible to pick another format like 3gp or mp3 instead or keep the downloaded files in their original format.

XVideoServiceThief is definitely not the only application that is providing that functionality but the program works without difficulties. It’s also worth mentioning that it is Open Source, available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh and comes as a portable version and installation in the Windows version.