VDownloader V0.73    Suggested by SuperGeek525 - Updated by Andrew Lee on 9 Aug 2010 5MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (7620) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (24) - Post comment - Permalink

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 GM: Needed a 30 second You Tube clip. Downloaded this program and had it 2 minutes later. Piece of Cake! [2007-05-31 15:02]

 GM: Forgot to include that it automatically converted it to AVI format !!! [2007-05-31 15:03]

 Otto: Please Help!!! I've had this program for a few weeks and just now it's starting to mess up. I download a file from youtube and it downloads but freezes at the "converting video" stage. It'll stay here all night if I let it. I just downloaded the new version and it's still doing this. The file never completes and I can't use it. Before, this program was the best thing since sliced bread, but now it's useless to me unless I can get it to work again. Please let me know what is going on. Thank you in advance [2007-06-15 18:16]

 Sr. Mina, ICC.: Otto, I'd say the problem is that your cache is full. Empty it and you should be able to download and convert the files again. This freeze typically happens when you have no more space left in your cache for the file to be worked on. Post again if that does not solve your issue. [2007-07-24 03:08]

 Mark: A simpler and quicker method is to use firefox and the "Fast Video Download" plugin for firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590
no cut n paste, just save to a folder directly with the original filename. [2007-08-16 19:10]

 [BOT]Fluffy: Mark: Some of us Opera users are glad to have this tool. And when we do have to use Firefox once in a blue moon, we'd rather it not be any more of a bloated mess than it needs to be. :D [2007-08-17 15:25]

 Pevanis: Really nice tools BUT download from Daily Motion doesn't work. When You press Download it says that is downloaaded 100% but no any data in the folder. [2007-08-20 00:51]

 dot: I like it's search function. It found a few flicks for me quite *quickly* that I didn't find with several search engines.

Yet!!! The search engine seems to have some bug: it doesn't stop searching and keeps using up over 50% of CPU usage until you exit the program! So, when VDownloader converts a longer film that you got via its search function and is using 100% CPU power, converting will take rather, rather long as the search function probably is still using about 50% of CPU power. And you can't exit the program after a search to start converting without the search function still running and using all that CPU power at the same time as converting goes on.

I'm posting this here as there seems to be no way to post on VDownloader's website. Maybe someone can confirm this bug with the search function? [2007-09-12 09:18]

 QueenOfStars: @Pevanis: Try closing the source page in your browser and then hit download. In most cases, Vdownloader doesn't work when the browser is playing the .flv at the same time you try to d/l it. [2007-09-13 16:47]

 Polac: dot: I've exactly the same problem, the search never ends !!
queen: and it doesn't matter if you have or not the internal browser working !!! [2007-09-21 13:30]

 Tianon: @Mark: what this does that Fast Video Download won't is convert it to some other arbitrary format for you. no more messing around with FLV files unless you have to... for that, I'll gladly use a separate program, since I'd have to anyways. [2007-09-30 00:02]

 Eldad: Pros: Works great, enables many features like size, format etc.
Cons: Pay attention that sometimes it takes it a few seconds to locate the file on Youtube and if you press "Download" more than once it may hang or claim that the address supplied is not valid. [2007-11-24 03:38]

 Whirly: Mark: That's ridiculous. Instead of downloading a reliable application that does one thing really well, you're suggesting people download an entire browser (which they obviously didn't want, since they're looking at this program and not at firefox.com) and then search for a plug-in? Seems needless to me! [2008-04-15 18:57]

 Kadzhi: best alternative:
4 firefox users -- Flash Video Resources Downloader 1.0.1 -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/17695/flash_video_resources_downloader-1.0.1-fx.xpi (just 4KB)
4 opera users -- Flash Video Downloader -- http://widgets.opera.com/widget/download/9402/

.... [2008-04-24 00:32]

 lightshadow: free you tube download works as a standalone DLer. currently still works with no problems, also does batch. i'm still looking for something that does google videos or VBS.tv videos. any ideas? [2008-04-28 23:34]

 bkweathe: The newest version (0.73) seems to have a new installation system. The ZIP file contains "vd_setup.exe". Does anyone know if it is still portable? [2008-09-11 07:53]

 DanG: Not worth what I paid for it.
I tried on two different machine (running from a flash (as it was advertised as a portable app v73). Got error "not a valid date", Googled it no support, have to move on to other things..CRAP. [2008-09-24 20:03]

 DanG: Follow up:
Found the problem problem was in Windows XP regional time format layout. I'll take back the CRAP statement but suggest this could be solved programmatically. [2008-09-24 20:25]

 Nice, but lacks adjustable settings: Nice prog, I like that one can choose between a lot of formats to have the downloaded file output it, but it lacks a bit in the settings department. I downloaded some youtube vids as plain mp3 files, the output is pretty low: 56 kbps/22 khz. Can't find options to adjust this in the programme. [2008-10-10 09:25]

 PortableTester: This is no longer portable as it stores its settings file in the %username%\Local Settings\Application Data\vdownloader folder. (Previous post was submitted mistakenly) [2008-12-11 22:56]

 Onesimus Prime: It seems that PortableTester is right. With the current version, 0.76, I tried both creating a blank settings file, and moving the one it creates into the app's directory. Neither worked, and the settings file gets written where PortableTester said. Anybody else have an idea?

My 2 cents - if you have an older, portable version, keep using it. I can't tell what new functionality, if any, has been added anyway... [2009-01-02 00:51]

 nandos11: I have Vdownlaoder and was using it quite happily, then suddenly it stops downlaoding, suring the "queued" part it says " error downlading file" , is the server no longer running or soemthing...? please get back to me at scorpion_queen_11@hotmail.com thanks [2009-07-09 11:02]

 nestor: hi [2009-07-20 23:06]

 monster: My universal extractor won't extract the installer, says it "cannot be extracted. Filetype returned was Borland Delphi 6.0 - 7.0 [Overlay]." Anybody have any idea what this means? [2010-07-24 16:19]

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