Despite its fairly minimalist appearance, this program is one of the most complete when it comes to downloading videos from web pages such as YouTube or MySpace. As well as letting you use the URL of the videos as the download source, it also has a built-in mini-browser which directly accesses the web pages of the online video services, along with a handy button to start downloading to your hard disk the video that is playing in the main window of whichever of the compatible multimedia portals VDownloader is using.
It is compatible with sites ranging from YouTube and MySpace to others such as Stage 6 (recently closed down), 123 Video, Google, Lulu TV and MegaVideo, among others. As if that wasn’t enough, it also provides a menu with options for selecting the video format to use when saving the video downloaded from the online source to your hard disk. The choices range from the un-encoded format, as downloaded from the web page, to formats specific to iPod or other portable devices such as the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, not forgetting the format optimised for PSPs and those for generic 3G mobile phones. It’s also possible to only encode the audio, into MP3 format, which is a very useful option if you’re learning a foreign language and just want the audio to help you improve your listening skills. This is practically a must-have program for all addicts to the “new television” of the Internet.

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