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HiDownload Platinum

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Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Mar 23, 2010

The Internet contains an abundance of entertaining and educational content in both audio and video formats, and sooner or later almost everyone finds themselves wanting to download such content for later use. Fortunately for all of us, many programs have cropped up in recent years to help us with this task. HiDownload is one such program; but, we're sorry to say, it's not nearly as user-friendly as some others we've encountered.

The program's interface is plain and doesn't offer a whole lot in the way of direction. Some of the features were pretty easy to figure out, but others confounded us. The online Help file isn't particularly well-written, and it was confusing at least as often as it was helpful. We were able to easily download an MPEG file, but other file types didn't come as easily. There are plenty of mentions throughout the interface and Help file about YouTube and FLV files, but our attempts at downloading and playing them were futile. There were a lot of features alluded to in HiDownload's interface that didn't make any obvious sense, and overall we found the program to be frustrating to use. It's entirely possible that HiDownload is perfectly functional, but why bother to find out when there are so many programs that do the same thing and are much easier to use?

HiDownload has a 30-day trial period. It installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program with reservations.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 8.22

Version 8.22 fixed some bugs of downloading rtmp stream; updated "Flv Filter" for capturing rtmp streaming media address.

General

Release March 12, 2014
Date Added March 12, 2014
Version 8.22

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows Vista, Windows, Windows 2000, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP
Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 267,189
Downloads Last Week 5
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Developer's Description

HiDownload Platinum - All-In-One Stream Downloader and Sniffer HiDownload Platinum is leader of all-in-one stream downloader that aims to download multimedia streaming video and audio, enabling you to download movies, music and capture streaming video and audio,record radio from Internet. Support RTMP, MMS, RTSP, HTTP stream protocols, the build-in sniffer help you capture stream's link(URL).

Key Features : Download flash video(flv, mp4, f4v, m4v,...) through HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT protocols from social websites(youtube, facebook). Download windows stream video and audio(silverlight) through MMS, RTSP and HTTP protocols, suppport all the window stream formats(wmv, asf, wma, asx, wvx, wax). Download Real Video and Audio from Real Media Server through RTSP, PNM and HTTP protocols, support All RealMedia streaming formats(rm, ra, rmvb, ram, smil, smi, pnm). Download MP3 Streaming from shoutcast.com, IceCast and other mp3 streaming websites. Download p2p tv stream(TVAnts). Download QuickTime streaming Video or Audio content from quicktime streaming media server, and support .mov, .mp4 streaming formats. Build-in Sniffer help you capture stream's link. Live Manager help you schedule and manage the live streaming. Build-in podcast manager, help you download podcast and easy to manage them. Multi-Threads Download. ZIP Preview - Preview and extract Zip files as they download. Build-in Sniffer - find all stream links. Build-in Converter - convert downloaded media files to other formats.

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