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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: December 17, 2009
- Total Downloads: 3,991
- Downloads last week: 75
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on July 29, 2009
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 :After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this 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.
Version 1.51 has added support for image files. Although this utility was created for extracting video files some users requested to add image files and fixed bug in rare case VideoCacheView crashed immediately after running it.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.53 has improved the performances of scanning the cache of Internet Explorer.
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Version: VideoCacheView 1.53
"Highly practical way of capturing any video..."
Pros: simply accesses the clip from your cache memory.
Cons: you have to wade through the videos in your cache - not a real problem since you can sort by date.
Summary: This utility simply locates on your hard drive the internet clips that you have viewed in your browser. It gives a "preview" and "copy to" option to move it to your desired location.
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