|File Size:9.87 MB|
Formerly
known as plain old YouTube Downloader, the recently renamed YTD Video
Downloader updates to version 4.0 with a promise of 2x faster downloads
and 2x faster video conversions, and perhaps more usefully, the ability
to resume downloads after the temporary loss of an Internet connection.
As usual, the installer includes a Spigot-based YTD Video Toolbar and
offers to change your default search engine to
Yahoo and add 5-6 shopping extensions to Google Chrome. Clicking the
"Decline" button during the lone advertising screen in the installer
lets users easily opt-out of all offers.
Downloading
worked very well for popular video sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and
Blip.TV. As in previous reviews, YTD Video Downloader quickly saved the
default MP4 file to the directory of my choice, which is easily selected
or created from the main screen. I tried various CNET and "creative
commons"-tagged videos on YouTube and had excellent download speeds. I
was sure to try out the most recently added site that YTD supports--the
Chinese video site Youku--and was able to download a wonderful beetle
animation easily, though it did break longer videos into multiple files
(see below).
The
free version of YTD Video Download only allows downloading to the MP4
video format, so the additional conversion functionality for changing
the file to WMV, AVI, or MP3 is welcome, but why not just convert the
download on the fly? Converting video files worked acceptably well,
although I did crash the app once converting a Download Video Preview
from MP4 to MP3. The conversion completed, but the program become
unresponsive and I had to force quit. I experienced other occasional
brief program hangs when downloading large videos from foreign sites.
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