Vdownloader

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Version tested:  0.2

Description: Vdownloader is a free program that will download videos from YouTube, Google Video and Grinvi and save them in either .avi or .mpg format.

I am continually amazed with the success of both YouTube and Google Video, if only because it seems you can find absolutely any video that you care to search for. Who is uploading these videos anyway?

There are a number of web services that have sprung up that provide downloading functionality from YouTube and Google Video, such as Video Downloader and Keepvid. The only problem with these, however, is that the downloaded videos are in .flv format, requiring you to install and use an .flv player to watch them. 

This is why this program is so cool. It allows you to (a) download online videos by pasting in their links, (b) lets you determine the size in pixels of the output file, as well as the audio bitrate, and (c) allows you to choose either .avi or .mpg as the output format.

I have tested this program for both YouTube and Google Video and it works beautifully and efficiently.

Go to download page for latest version. The Programmer’s home page (a blog in Spanish).

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13 Comments so far

  1. [...] I’ve noticed people are searching for this. A really elegant solution would be if Vdownloader (or a program like it) allowed encoding straight into MP4 and not just AVI and MPG.   [...]

  2. ilker on December 13th, 2006

    just came across your great site of freeware apps and i almost found what i was looking for.. i basically need kind of like this program but also allows me to put in a list of links (i keep links of videos i want to download, so i can watch them all later) such that it downloads them as a batch. any suggestions?

  3. ilker on December 13th, 2006

    correction: the new version has batch downloading! thanks

  4. mikey on January 14th, 2007

    hey people… it also requires PROXY.. and other settings… is that necessary to fill in?? if it is.. tell me.. ok… plz i realy need that… thank u!!

  5. Rost on February 25th, 2007

    Great tool! Thank’s

  6. nadia on March 15th, 2007

    hai.i still don’t understand how to download movie from youtube??? pls tell me one step by step

  7. nadia on March 15th, 2007

    hai.pls help me how to download movie from youtube. pls tell step by step

  8. ahmed on April 10th, 2007

    good

  9. download you tube on May 20th, 2007

    here is an online version of a youtube downloader

    http://downloadandsaveyoutubevideos.info/

  10. [...] straight into your ipod) http://www.ie7pro.com/download-youtube-v…; ( need ie7 for this one) http://www.freewaregenius.com/2006/10/06…; ( this will download and switch file to avi or mpg format) [...]

  11. yuri on February 19th, 2008

    goooooooooddddddd thanks

  12. CT on March 13th, 2008

    Here’s a more ‘Up to Date’ link to the Software…. In English, no less!

    http://www.vdownloader.es/

    Seems to be from the Author, and still being actively developed [v 0.7 today] - Even SoftPedia inspected and approved! ;-)

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