- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: October 26, 2009
- Total Downloads: 21,999,981
- Downloads last week: 480,630
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1170 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 07, 2008
This simple freeware application works pretty well, given how basic the interface is. It has two main features: to download FLV files from YouTube, and to convert them to most major formats. If there's a YouTube URL in your clipboard, it will automatically paste it for you when you click on the dialog box. From there, just hit OK and the downloading will commence. One more left-click is all it takes to load the file in the converter, which supports iPhone, iPod, PSP, cell phone, AVI, MP3, WMV, and Xvid. Surprisingly, there's also a basic video editor for cropping videos by time stamp. You can also cut out the sound when converting.
This is one of the lightest editors around, but the simplistic interface belies its functionality and it performs exactly as advertised. We'd like to see support in future editions for hunting down missing codecs, and version 2.1.5 and earlier won't work because of embed code changes on YouTube itself. Still, the YouTube Downloader is proof that not only is video-making accessible to everyone, so is video downloading and editing.
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Publisher's description
From Biennesoft :It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, including HD and HQ videos, and many others and convert them to other video formats. The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok. It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3. Allows you to access YouTube videos for which you need to be 18+ years of age. Now, plays videos downloaded.
What's new in this version:
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 1170 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: YouTube Downloader 2.5.3
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: YouTube Downloader 2.5.3
"Light weight and a major bug removed"
Pros: Very light-weight and speedy. It also converts the downloaded video to various formats and that too at the quality level you want.
Cons: It does not support to resume the broken download. An appropriate filename pops up for a while and is turned to the default filename "video" forcing us each time to change the name. But this is not a major issue.
Summary: Apparently I did not encounter any bug in this version and I am convinced that it is a stable version. Using the YouTube Downloader 2.5.3 makes it possible to store the video files locally to save the internet traffic. Above all, I did not see any m... read more >>
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Version: YouTube Downloader 2.5.3
Pros: easy to use
Cons: difficult to download
Summary: easy to use
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Version: YouTube Downloader 2.5.3
"simple interface,easy to use,high quality YouTube mp4"
Pros: very easy to download YouTube video in mp4 format.
Simply interface and don't have to convert.Cons: basically i try to use many YouTube Video download software in the website (FreeDownload), bu only this software is really fit to download the good video from YouTube,so i think there is no cons for me.
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Version: YouTube Downloader 2.5.3
Pros: Downloads and labels with correct names
Cons: no problems
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