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Used by 2,, Users 19, Reviews. Video DownloadHelper is the most complete tool for extracting videos and image files from websites and saving them to your hard drive. Just surf the web as you normally do. When DownloadHelper detects embedded videos it can access for download, the toolbar icon highlights and a simple menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item.
For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download the video directly on your file system. Besides downloading, Video DownloadHelper is also capable of making file conversions i. Fixed YouTube bulk download After changes on the YouTube video site, it was no longer possible to download several videos from a single operation by mouse-selecting the videos in the YouTube page and requesting a bulk-download operation.
Video DownloadHelper version 7. Fixed YouTube multiple videos selection A long standing issue: when mouse-selecting a portion of a YouTube web page in order to request a download of all the videos included in this selection, some videos could be missed in the process.
This is now fixed. Soundcloud support Soundcloud now has special support allowing tunes to be downloaded as MP3 files. Updated all locales Many thanks to our contributors! Download file. Older versions Version 7. As a result, the user may end up with an audio or video-only file, depending on the chosen variant.
When an audio-only and a video-only file have been downloaded, it is now possible to use the local aggregation tool to merge those two files to a single audio-video media file. Version 7. Works with firefox Video DownloadHelper 7.
Updated locales: Russian. When browsing a Facebook timeline or opening a Facebook video post, Video DownloadHelper offers several variants for each detected video. As a consequence, Video DownloadHelper 7. We understand that updating this companion application is a bit tedious if you compare to how smoothly the add-on updates, and we try to keep this requirement as seldom as possible. But in this case, we had no other choice. We apologize in advance. Changes from 7. This is feature was existing in VDH6 but was limited to unsigned videos.
Smartnaming is back: you can now again specify for given sites where in the page to get the video file name from, or choose an obfuscated file name for discretion. Try it: open Video DownloadHelper settings and choose Conversion Rules in the dropdown menu Variant preferences editing: as with VDH6, you can now reorder the variant qualities you want to appear at the top of the list.
By default, you need to manually analyze the page from the add-on main panel for the potential galleries to be discovered, or you can change the setup to perform the analyze automatically whenever a page is loaded.
Added right-click download commands: right-clicking into a page gives access to a Video DownloadHelper menu. From there you can request the download of a video playing in the page, or perform some top-level commands like opening the extensions settings or requesting the analyze of the page. Blacklist edition: it is now possible to edit the blacklist from the settings, in order to remove an entry that has been erroneously added, or add new ones manually.
Blacklisting allows to ignore some video detections like ads based on their origin domain Settings reset: from the add-on settings, you can now reset changed values to the original settings. Display ETA in downloads: when displaying the running downloads section, you can now see the progress percentage and how long it takes to complete. Download directory setup user interface: for companion app downloads, you now have a user interface to select the download directory.
YouTube videos containing double quote character: the title was then wrongly reported Multi-line details values: when using the Details action, property value was displayed on a single line Fixed download of encrypted HLS streams using key relative URLs a zero-day bug No error reported on user download cancellation Version 7. At this point, 7. It is an almost complete rewrite of the extension. Unfortunately, we have been lacking time and not all features could make it to 7.
Within the next few weeks, most features will be back. Version 6. It does not add nor remove any feature from the previous 6. 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. 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. Default is Aggregate audio and video, which implies using the converter but you can change it to choose audio or video only. A number of YouTube videos are streamed not only in ADP mode audio and video in separate streams but each of those streams in DASH mode plenty of small segments that need download and rework to create a playable media.
Previously, Video DownloadHelper ignored those videos, causing a No media found message to be displayed. With version 6. HLS-streamed videos have been supported since version 5. This new version supports encrypted HLS. This is now fixed and you don't have to use alternative players to hear those videos. In some cases, HLS captures lead to a file containing only audio. This was due to a bug that has been fixed in this version.
Users with very poor networking conditions like an Internet connection going up and down had a hard time downloading videos, particularly big ones.
The new version fixes an issue with chunked downloads not using retries properly, and add a configurable delay between retries. If requesting some downloads and scrolling down to make new videos to be detected, you could lose control of the downloads. Other fixes and improvements Clearing errors now have immediate effect on toolbar icon badge Fixed bug where in some cases the wrong language could be used in the add-on interface Fixed screen region capture when e10s is enabled Prevented text selection in main panel.
In some conditions, it could be difficult to unselect. As a result, some YouTube are not detected while they are available. It is now easier to identify which video to pick if several of them have been detected in the page. Several fixes and locale updates have been included in the release.
Source code released under Custom License What's this? Version 5. Note this may require updating the Windows converter. With the new Masked download feature, you can ensure no downloaded video will touch your disk without being encrypted.
Learn more about the Masked Download feature. You can now use the multi-formats video player that comes with the converter thanks to the new Play action.
Better F4F capture support: you can now choose between several quality variants when available on the server. We provided a fix for that within 24 hours under the form of a beta version of the add-on.
This 5. Previous 5. This new version even offer in most cases the choice between several quality variants. The old list of supported sites which were not maintained anymore is back to life. New sites are added weekly. Those lists are hosted on the downloadhelper. A long-time request from users with a low quality network connection: automatic download retries. If the download fails in a recoverable way, the add-on tries to resume the download from where it stops.
The number of retries before giving up is configurable. Add-on settings are now managed from with a tab and no longer an add-on panel. The DownloadHelper icon is now usable from the Firefox options panel. An option has been added to switch to the tab owning a particular video entry in the panel. Video entries with long titles can now have the ellipsis … at right, left or display over several lines, based on the settings.
Fixes from previous 5. This capture method is used in two new features: Browsing session capture: an easy way to make web sites demo videos. The add-on captures the visible part of a browser window and optionally, is able to highlight the mouse. Applet capture: the add-on analyzes the loaded page to detect Flash and video regions big enough to be considered as capturable content and creates new entries in the detected hits list.
Passing the mouse over those entries highlights the related region in the page so you know what you are about to capture. Other minor fixes and additions: optionally use browser's default download directory instead of VDH specific one optionally display VDH controls from the Tools menu optionally allows prefixing gallery captured files with incremental number MP2T capture can now be configured from the settings conversion output profiles can now be configured from the settings if converter is not installed, place ADP variants detected from the network at the bottom of the list Version 5.
It fixes the problem 4. Version 4. Fixed bug Dailymotion videos do not download anymore. Fixed bug default toolbar icon location. This is particularly an issue since Firefox Added video file size prior to download in entry tooltip as per bug This does not work for YouTube and DailyMotion specific capture methods.
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