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Can't find a video file you watched months ago? Not to worry, this nifty little app makes recovering video or audio files from your cache a snap. However, its save function didn't work at all in our tests.
VideoCacheView is a free app that launches a small, one-pane window with a row of icons in a toolbar. It appears unassuming for a few moments, then--quick as a wink--it automatically fills its pane with a list of video and audio files it detects in your Web browser cache. This little app performed alright in our tests: it recovered video, but only from the Internet Explorer Cache. It ignored files from the Firefox cache, even though Firefox, like IE, was selected in the Options dialog box. As for allowing us to replay recovered files, the app responded quickly to our input, and its search for cached files was very quick (although, as noted, less than thorough). However, when we attempted to save a file from the cache to our hard drive, the functionality failed. The app's appropriate dialog boxes opened, we selected a filename and destination folder, and everything appeared to work. But when we returned to the folder, none of the files were to be found.
The lack of functionality for the save feature is disappointing, but VideoCacheView's capabilities for recovering files from the browser cache were pleasing.
Publisher's Description
From NirSoft Freeware:
VideoCacheView utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it on your local disk for watching it in the future. VideoCacheView doesn't require any installation process or additional DLL files. It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play FLV files, and it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser's cache.
What's new in this version: Version 2.46 has added option to choose the file size display unit: Bytes, KB, or MB.
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"The Last Resort For Video Downloading"
Version: VideoCacheView 2.45
Pros
Most of the free video downloaders like Freemake and XVideoServiceThief succeed with about 2/3 of the streaming videos that they attempt to download. They need constant updating because Adobe keep revising the standards for the RTMP network protocol and sites like Youtube attempt to thwart downloaders by regularly making changes in their servers. When the ordinary video downloaders fail I bring in the big guns- Net Transport and get-flash-videos. Even they can fail to detect the URL of streams from a site like Bang Bros for instance. In such cases the last resort is VideoCacheView which would provide 100% success by locating browser and web caches, except that some videos are fragmented from these sources. I must say I have never had a problem saving the videos to my hard drive and I appreciate being able to preview the videos from the cache.
Cons
Not infallible. Some videos are fragmented when they are cached.
Summary
Carries on working when the free video downloaders fail and does so without needing regular updates.
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"great software...now i am totally addicted to this"
Version: VideoCacheView 2.35
Pros
You can view Cached videos ; swf and image files without downloading anything .it is very light and u can save Cached contents permanently to hardrive
saves us from "downloading" the watched videos
also if you have watches only the mid 15 min portion of a 1 hr video this software lets us save that 15 min video without having to download the total 1 hr vodeoCons
not all the watched videos are cached
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"Could use some polishing"
Version: VideoCacheView 1.93
Pros
Worked fairly well on Windows 7 Pro 32 bit version for Firefox and Internet Explorer. Had issues with Chromium.
Cons
Had several problems on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machine.
Summary
Could be more user friendly
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"a must have product"
Version: VideoCacheView 1.86
Pros
u don't have to download videos from websites ; it is very light and u can define path of Cache folder manually
Cons
i have't found anything yet
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"Excellent idea"
Version: VideoCacheView 1.86
Pros
Works as indicated
Cons
Slightly difficult in finding the files
Summary
Considering the cost ($0) and function, an excellent product.
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"It could see nothing - uninstalled"
Version: VideoCacheView 1.83
Pros
Nothing at all
Cons
It could see nothing in my Firefox, Opera or Chrome caches.
Summary
No use, uninstalled - it might work in IE but I never use that.
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"you must have VideoCacheView in your taskbar"
Version: VideoCacheView 1.83
Pros
You can view Cached videos ; swf and image files without downloading anything .it is very light and u can save Cached contents permanently to hardrive and you don't have to find file in Cached folders of your browsers .
Cons
nothing i m happy with this software
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"Very useful program"
Version: VideoCacheView 1.78
Pros
Ability to list cached videos by type, time and size. Can copy and save videos.
Cons
View needs to be manually refreshed often.
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"Not very helpful"
Version: VideoCacheView 1.72
Pros
Did not find what I was looking for
Cons
No real use
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"Once I found this, I've used it exclusively."
Version: VideoCacheView 1.72
Pros
I've used it in both Chrome and FF but mostly Chrome
Cons
Maybe not the easiest interface to use.
Summary
I was able to capture video uploads on youtube that later went temporarily private immediately after viewing. It was nice to be able to enjoy the videos again even when they were suddenly no longer available. It's really a "5" to me personally regardless of the UI.
