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Winish Youtube Downloader

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Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Nov 21, 2010

Most freeware YouTube downloaders share the ability to download and save YouTube videos so that you can play them back whenever you like. Some are little more than a button and bar; others load up on the bells and whistles. Winish YouTube Downloader falls somewhere in the middle, with an emphasis on convenience. It downloads multiple videos simultaneously and saves files in a variety of formats. It includes a simple but effective video converter, too, but it doesn't try to be an FTP client or split files or tweak your Internet connection. It just grabs videos from YouTube and saves them in a folder and format of your choice so you can watch them later.

Winish YouTube Downloader's compact interface is tabbed for Search and Download, Create a Download List, and Video Converter. We entered a title to search and a destination folder for downloaded videos and clicked Search. Winish displayed a list of results in a scroll-enabled page view, with check boxes for selecting videos to download, a preview button that displayed a frame of the selected video in a small window, and an arrow for each and every entry linked to the software's Facebook page. Clicking on any of the entries didn't open the YouTube page but instead accessed a variety of Web advertisements, which we did not appreciate. Nevertheless, we were able to select several videos based on their titles and preview images. We chose MPEG from a list of six output formats and clicked download. A progress bar and numerical display tracked our download, and our videos played normally when we opened them in our usual media player. Next we tried the download list tab, which involves pasting URLs into a list view. The Video Converter tool proved handy for quickly changing formats; it's just Source and Output selector fields and a choice of output formats, but that's all you need most of the time.

Winish YouTube Downloader proved quick and easy to use, offering a nice middle ground between primitive and complex in performing its duty. We didn't like the tricky ad views, but the program did its job and didn't cost anything, so that's not much of a gripe. It's well worth a look.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1.0

This version adds minimizing to tray function.

General

Date Added January 14, 2010
Version 1.0

Operating Systems

Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 19,474
Downloads Last Week 1
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Developer's Description

This software product will allow you to download and manage all of the Youtube videos you ever wanted to own. You can choose from Youtube videos you know and want to own, or you can search for Youtube videos, and pick and choose which to download from the results. In the search feature you can search using one or several strings, and sift through the many results, five videos at a time. You can also choose an output format in which to save those files in--among them low- and high-end formats, including mp3--if you're just interested in the audio, flv if you want a mobile format, mpeg or avi--for a high-end format that fits DVDs, and mp4--which is a high-end format that fits a lot of mobile devices, and offers both video and audio - unlike its predecessor, the mp3 format, which only offered audio. If you choose to download based on a list you can keep track of it using a text editor--adding to it every time someone gives you a link to a Youtube video, or every time you find a Youtube video that you're interested in. You then choose 'Add' in the program's interface, and you add that link one by one, or you can copy the text file you created into the computer's memory, and paste the list using the 'Paste' button in the 'Add' menu. You can remove things from the list if you make errors, or you can clear the entire list and start fresh. You can also watch a percentage bar that shows you how long it will take in order to deliver the Youtube videos you want, in a format you want. This is done in order to help you better manage your time--you can burn a DVD with videos and take those to a friend's house, or you can upload and store them to a mobile device - anything from a simple mp3 player, to something like the iPod device. You can also convert any existing videos you have, to various formats--low- and high-end, mobile formats and stationary formats.
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