Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by vdh
Review by Inhahe
Rated 2 out of 5
by Inhahe, 5 years agoIt seems to give different options for the video quality each time you try to download the same thing.
When you just click on a download option it doesn't ask you where you want to save or tell you where it's saving it, you have to click on the right-arrow to the right to do that.
It doesn't show you the current download status or tell you when it's done.
The default filename for YouTube videos is apparently just "YouTube.webm" or whatever extension, so if you want to give it a decent name you have to type it out or copy it from the YouTube listing.
It has a ton of options for formats to convert the video to, including at least one audio format, but somehow it doesn't have any good, modern audio formats like m4a, ogg, opus or wma.
It requires you to download and install an external application for it to work, so you don't get the safety of just running an approved and contained FireFox addon, who knows what malware, spyware or adware is in it.
Just about the only good thing about this addon that it's actually able to download videos.
Actually, I take that back.. it only downloads successfully some of the time. Usually on YouTube I get an error similar to this:
Failed aggregating "Paul Anka - Let It Snow - YouTube"
D:\mp3\d:\mp3\christmas\youtube\Paul Anka - Let It Snow - YouTube-IDGEaS6vs8Y.mkv: Invalid argument
I haven't figured out a way around that. I'm lowering my rating from 3 to 2.
When you just click on a download option it doesn't ask you where you want to save or tell you where it's saving it, you have to click on the right-arrow to the right to do that.
It doesn't show you the current download status or tell you when it's done.
The default filename for YouTube videos is apparently just "YouTube.webm" or whatever extension, so if you want to give it a decent name you have to type it out or copy it from the YouTube listing.
It has a ton of options for formats to convert the video to, including at least one audio format, but somehow it doesn't have any good, modern audio formats like m4a, ogg, opus or wma.
It requires you to download and install an external application for it to work, so you don't get the safety of just running an approved and contained FireFox addon, who knows what malware, spyware or adware is in it.
Just about the only good thing about this addon that it's actually able to download videos.
Actually, I take that back.. it only downloads successfully some of the time. Usually on YouTube I get an error similar to this:
Failed aggregating "Paul Anka - Let It Snow - YouTube"
D:\mp3\d:\mp3\christmas\youtube\Paul Anka - Let It Snow - YouTube-IDGEaS6vs8Y.mkv: Invalid argument
I haven't figured out a way around that. I'm lowering my rating from 3 to 2.
40,492 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19631862, 4 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13755796, 7 hours agoSuper Video Download Add-On! Sehr flexibel, erfasst fast alle Video Streams, nutze es regelmäßig.
- Rated 5 out of 5by manvar, 9 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ossinissa, 13 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18742577, 16 hours agoFunktioniert super. Bis auf Facebook und Instagram kann das Tool so ziemlich alles runter laden, was ich möchte.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18957698, 17 hours agoin the latest version (v.10.0.271.2) downloading from "www.ceskatelevize.cz" does not work, the addon reports "waiting video". But the older version (9.5.0.2) is functional
- Rated 5 out of 5by OpticAirhead, a day ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19629044, 2 days agoDon´t know what they changed but the app worked fine yesterday and doesn´t work at all.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gambled, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16879634, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mosef, 2 days ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19628713, 2 days agoPuts a giant watermark on the downloaded videos, uninstalled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14504258, 2 days agoIs perfect to download a serie or any content and with the smart naming feature, the task of naming is very easear
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15930469, 2 days agoI can recommend this video only to those who download many videos in large batches and need a GUI, because ffmpeg downloads much faster, while having an ability to merge subtitles into a .mkv file among many other things.
- Rated 1 out of 5by --a, 2 days agoVersion 10 is completely broken. Had to revert to the old one. V10 cannot download any large videos, esp. with typical free streaming servers which often have network issues. The older versions can deal with that (not perfectly, but eventually it works). There are lots more new bugs. And I really don't need the UI to be redesigned all the time, esp. when that breaks the most important feature.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19628200, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gunstr, 2 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by SU-80, 2 days ago