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Video DownloadHelper is a Firefox addon. Using DownloadHelper, you can easily save videos from most of the popular video sites. It is also possible to capture all the images from a gallery in a single operation. In particular, it is able to store on your disk movie files for which the web site does not provide a "Save File" feature. Note! DownloadHelper is a Firefox addon so you need to use it together with the web browser FireFox.
Free software
OS:Windows Mac Linux
Version:6.3.1
Released:May 1,2017
File size:0.7MB
OS:Windows Mac Linux
Version:6.3.1
Released:May 1,2017
File size:0.7MB
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Note! DownloadHelper is a Firefox addon so you need to use it together with the web browser FireFox.
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Version 6.3.1
Released May 1, 2017 769.8 KiB
Works with Firefox 36.0 and later
Fixed missing audio on Vimeo videos
You may have noticed that for some time, downloaded videos from Vimeo (or from sites hosting their videos on Vimeo) do not have audio.
This is due a change in their streaming technology and they now stream the audio and video parts of the media separately, as YouTube have been doing for several years.
The Video DownloadHelper workaround is the same as with YouTube: use an external video converter to aggregate audio and video streams into a single audio+video file that can be used by your video player.
We are aware of the inconvenience of having to install an external application, but there is no easy alternative here. Note that once the converter is installed, the process is totally transparent and you end up with a fully playable video without any special action.
If you want to avoid using the converter, you can still use Video DownloadHelper to download separately the two streams (but you will have to find a way to play them together). For doing so, open DownloadHelper settings > More > Chunked streaming, check Advanced. In section DASH streaming, parameter When DASH contains both audio and video lets you choose which stream(s) you want to download. Default is Aggregate audio and video, which implies using the converter but you can change it to choose audio or video only.
Released May 1, 2017 769.8 KiB
Works with Firefox 36.0 and later
Fixed missing audio on Vimeo videos
You may have noticed that for some time, downloaded videos from Vimeo (or from sites hosting their videos on Vimeo) do not have audio.
This is due a change in their streaming technology and they now stream the audio and video parts of the media separately, as YouTube have been doing for several years.
The Video DownloadHelper workaround is the same as with YouTube: use an external video converter to aggregate audio and video streams into a single audio+video file that can be used by your video player.
We are aware of the inconvenience of having to install an external application, but there is no easy alternative here. Note that once the converter is installed, the process is totally transparent and you end up with a fully playable video without any special action.
If you want to avoid using the converter, you can still use Video DownloadHelper to download separately the two streams (but you will have to find a way to play them together). For doing so, open DownloadHelper settings > More > Chunked streaming, check Advanced. In section DASH streaming, parameter When DASH contains both audio and video lets you choose which stream(s) you want to download. Default is Aggregate audio and video, which implies using the converter but you can change it to choose audio or video only.
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This is an "add-on", or plugin for Mozilla Firefox and will auto update when you update the Firefox browser.
I've used it for a few years and for the most part, it does a good job of downloading videos via the Firefox browser, mainly FLV and MP4 video, but it works for MPEG, WMV and JPEG image files as well.
It's free, never had any issues with malware or adware, but I don't use the video conversion part of the software so things may be a bit different in that department.
Apr 5, 2014 Version: 4.9.22
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
This browser plugin supposedly allows you to download any video from YouTube, but it only works correctly for non-HD video. If you try to download 720p or 1080p clips, you will get a file with working audio but non-functional video. This has to be a problem with the plugin, because there are other YT downloaders for Mac that allow perfect downloading of HD video.
Dec 18, 2013 Version: 4.9.21
OS: MacOSX Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 1/10
Value for money: 4/10
Overall: 5/10
Great tool but no longer works with YouTube (Vevo for sure). Trying Freemake now...
Jul 3, 2013 Version: 4.9.15
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 1/10
This is a great downloader.
Cannot download sometimes, but it works great right now.
Sep 26, 2012 Version: 4.9.10
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 6/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 9/10
My rating is meaningless:
Today 21-09-2012 I'm getting a Google warning that the site http://www.downloadhelper.net is being used to distribute malware
Partial Quote from Google:
"What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 138 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 59 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-09-21, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-09-21.
Malicious software is hosted on 3 domain(s), including muzafferkocer.com/, mucastudio.com/, kentlyonsdev2.com/.
2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including poddubem.com/, kentlyonsdev2.com/.
This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS16276 (OVH), AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone)............"
Sep 22, 2012 Version: 4.9.10
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 5/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 5/10
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