Duplicate Video Search for Windows

User Reviews

• Does what it has to do

  magneesrJuly 13, 2017

  Pros

  It finds duplicate videos on multiple places

  Cons

  It lacks the possibility to ignore some data from finding.

  Summary

  A good program

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• Don't waste your money

  rogerbenSeptember 12, 2015

  Pros

  Yep, finds duplicates. Possibly useful if you only have two files and want to personally place the checkmark beside the box to mark one for deletion. If you're willing to do all the work, this will find the duplicates for you to sit and check the boxes beside. If you want an automated solution you need to look elsewhere.

  Cons

  As close to worthless as a program like this can be. No dropdown menus, no options to choose which videos to mark for deletion. Look at their own screenshots. They larger (original) .mov is checked for deletion instead of the smaller .mkv. There is no way to choose which files you want to mark. This will delete your originals if you let it.

  Summary

  The only possible way this is a useful program is if you want to manually walk through each duplicate and choose the specific one you want to keep. Otherwise you'll end up deleting lots of best-quality duplicates and keeping the low res or clipped videos taken from the originals. No customer service after your credit card clears. Put the money you were going to flush down the toilet on this program towards the expert edition of Eric Bohain's Video Comparer. If you need for this type of video fingerprinting/comparing/deleting software you're going to end up buying it anyway after this one doesn't work anyway. I'm not the first one to mention it in these reviews, either. Trust us. Just buy Video Comparer from the start.

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• It actually works

  PubHighMotiJanuary 3, 2014

  Pros

  Seems to works with all video formats. I have plenty of them and all were processed

  Cons

  the screenshot here doesn't match the actual program version

  Summary

  The great thing about this program - it can detect the same movie stored in 720p and 1080p resolutions. I decided to keep only 1080p ones and this program was a great help

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• Gets the job done when it works

  deraltegilnitobeDecember 1, 2013

  Pros

  Is REALLY good at finding duplicates.

  Cons

  I bought the program when I was using Windows 8. I upgraded to Windows 8.1, installed Duplicate Video Search again and now it's stuck in trial mode. Tried contacting the publisher, pointless. This company has no post sale service. Be warned.

  Summary

  Wasted my money buying this.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Jan 5, 2014<p/>Since my review I have tried Video Comparer. That's a great piece of software. I found it to be faster and more accurate and that publisher allows for multiple activations if you upgrade your hardware. Don't bother with Duplicate Video Search.

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• Looks like an unique program

  PubHighMotiOctober 29, 2013

  Pros

  It works! Really identifies converted video files as duplicates. I never seen a program of such kind before

  Cons

  user interface does not looks modern

  Summary

  I don't have much video files, therefore it was a surprise for me that I have the duplicated among my videos. Useful program for those who want to save some wasted hard drive space

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• Great program... mostly

  ecwfrkAugust 5, 2013

  Pros

  One of only 2 consumer programs I've found that will find similar video files. And it does just as a good job and is much easier to use IMO. It's also cheap. The other program charges $130+ (100 Euros) for a fully functional version of their program while DVS is currently only $19.

  Cons

  It may take several runs with different settings to find all the dupes or you'll have to sift through a flood of false positives. It also tends to choke and either lock up or crash on some video files, especially MPG and VC-1 encoded WMV files, for no apparent reason even with the slow search method enabled. The top menu bar does not work on x64 operating systems. The program is still functional, just a bit more annoying to use without the menus. The biggest annoyance is when you buy it, you get a key locked to your hardware fingerprint. So whenever your hardware fingerprint changes (reinstalling windows, changing a HD, and changing video cards have all done it to me), you'll have to request a new serial number via email which can take a few hours or a few days. And if they ever stop supporting the program, it'll become useless as soon as your hardware ID changes again.

  Summary

  Also, any issues with the site having vulnerabilities as listed in the previous review have apparently been cleared up. Most likely the issue was a false positive due to the trial software being hosted on their old domain of visualsearchpony.com via an automatic redirect from their new domain, which is fairly common with Google's safe browsing tool. The current Google Safe Browsing report shows: What is the current listing status for duplicatevideosearch.com? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 3 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-08-05, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

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• WARNING MALICIOUS SOFTWARE!

  salazarjohnFebruary 9, 2013

  Pros

  none loaded it and it kept crashing

  Cons

  search for this software on the web it shows up as a reported attack site

  Summary

  I saw the warnings and knew nothing was getting past my hardware and software firewalls so I tried it. Really wanted it to work as a have a TON of videos that I wanted to check. Wasn't until I clicked on help icon in the program that it tried to open a vulnerability. Norton caught it right away so no harm done. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SOFTWARE!<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Feb 9, 2013<p/>here is what google says about this company's site Of the 15 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 12 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-02-05, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2013-02-02.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Feb 9, 2013<p/>here is what google says about this company's site Of the 15 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 12 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-02-05, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2013-02-02. Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, duplicatevideosearch.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s) including visualsearchpony.com/.

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