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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
- Date added: November 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 3,602,832
- Downloads last week: 17,148
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 134 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on February 23, 2009
Despite the lack of user guidance, this video-file downloader is easy to set up and use. VDownloader's interface is on the plain side and no Help file is offered, but it shouldn't take most users long to get the hang of downloading videos from their favorite sites.
The interface contains four large icons: Download, Search, Browser, and Settings. By default, VDownloader is set to monitor the clipboard when it's running, so as soon as we copied the link to a video, the program responded and asked us for Save As information. It's a small thing, but some programs don't allow you to choose a file name up front and it can be hard (without opening each file) to know what video you've downloaded if the file name is auto-assigned. The download began immediately after choosing the file name and location. You also can change this setting and manually paste a video link in to the URL field, but we preferred the time-saving clipboard monitoring step. VDownloader also lets you select the format you want to save video files in, another nice touch. Options include AVI, MP3, iPhone/iPod compatibility, and the original format.
The free program includes two useful extras. The first is the Search capability, which allows you to enter a video name and simultaneously search YouTube, Daily Motion, Google, and Yahoo Video. You can uncheck any of the four sites, but you aren't allowed to add any extras. The second extra is a built-in browser, which doesn't have any of the niceties you'll find in Firefox or Internet Explorer, but does include more than 20 bookmarks to video sites and a quick Download Video button for when you find a file you want to save. We recommend this free, easy-to-use video file downloader for any user.
Publisher's description
From Vitzo :Search for videos in sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, Yahoo, Megaupload, or Google at the same time. You can watch, download, or save videos with just one click. Its embedded meta search engine makes VDownloader different from other download managers. It searches at the same time in the most popular video sites so you will easily find the video you were looking for. Another strong point is the amount of different output formats: It can download and save videos in: AVI, MPG, MP4, iPhone-iPod, PSP, 3GP for mobile phones, DVD-VCD, MP3 (extracting audio from videos). VDownloader is also a powerful video converter with multilingual support (English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak and Japanese.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.12 fixes bug in YouTube parser, supports skinnable interface, adds new languages.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 134 votes
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Version: VDownloader 1.12
Pros: NONE AT ALL!!!
Cons: Contains TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabectob.B Alert level SEVERE found with Microsoft Secutiry Essentials
Summary: Crap!
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: VDownloader 1.12
Pros: Trojan!!!!
Cons: Trojan!!!!
Summary: I love vdownloader. I have used it on several machines to get videos from just about any website I want. HOWEVER, when I tried to get the newest version, McAfee blocked it as a recognized Trojan. Come on, cnet!!! I've never had this problem befo... read more >>
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Version: VDownloader 1.12
Pros: Easy to use, simple to understand. You can download several videos at one time, and you can covert them to a multitude of formats with this program all in one process. One of the BEST free programs available!
Cons: If you use CA security suite you have to add vDownloader to your exceptions list to use it on your computer.
Summary: vDownloader is the best download program to use that I have found. I can use it to download videos from youtube and convert to iPod format. I can use it and convert to mp3 player format...just about any format you desire, vDownloader has. It's pre... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: VDownloader 1.12
"Excellent - does what I want!"
Pros: Excellent - does what I want!
Cons: No problems.
Summary: Excellent - does what I want!
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: VDownloader 1.12
"TROJAN ADCLICKER VARIATIONS!!! DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!"
Pros: First time I've seen an infected version from vdownloader.es.
Cons: This file is INFECTED.
Summary: This file is INFECTED. Malwarebytes does NOT catch it; McAfee did.
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