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Title: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: Hawk on August 12, 2015, 10:13:09 PM
Hi guys.

Lost my brilliant YouTube video downloader/converter because of the ransom virus hit that I had and I cannot remember what it was named....... So I'm just wondering if you guys can point me in the right direction for a great free Youtube  video downloader/converter?

Thanks.  ;)

Hawk.
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: JamoZ on August 12, 2015, 10:15:24 PM
I always use http://keepvid.com/ (http://keepvid.com/) to download audio and/or video from youtube :)
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: CapeDoctor on August 13, 2015, 05:21:25 AM
i use VDownloader   8)
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: HornetMaX on August 13, 2015, 06:39:59 AM
keepvid.com for the occasional need.

If you download often, video DownloadHelper for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/)) works very well.
I only use it as downloader, if I need converting I use handbrake.

MaX.
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: Hawk on August 13, 2015, 08:13:39 AM
Thanks for the advice guys.  ;D 8)

If anyone else has any other suggestions keep them coming.....

All suggestions so far greatly appreciated!  8)

Hawk.
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: matty0l215 on August 13, 2015, 08:48:48 AM
I've always used DVD soft but reacently malwarebyte has flaged it a couple of times
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: cdx on August 13, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
http://www.clipconverter.cc/

That's the only one I've used, and only a few times but it seems good.
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: PeterV on August 14, 2015, 01:02:34 PM
Quote from: cdx on August 13, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
http://www.clipconverter.cc/

That's the only one I've used, and only a few times but it seems good.

Nice one, especially that you can enter a start and end point for recording.
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: Hawk on August 14, 2015, 03:09:23 PM
Quote from: HornetMaX on August 13, 2015, 06:39:59 AM
keepvid.com for the occasional need.

If you download often, video DownloadHelper for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/)) works very well.
I only use it as downloader, if I need converting I use handbrake.

MaX.

Handbrake looks like a very nice piece of kit for conversion work Max! Nice one.  ;)

Can you use Handbrake to tie two part videos together to create one whole video out of the two parts?


Quote from: cdx on August 13, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
http://www.clipconverter.cc/

That's the only one I've used, and only a few times but it seems good.
Also very impressed with Clipconverter as well.... Very fast with plenty of options.

Hawk.
Title: Re: What's the best free YouTube downloader/converter?
Post by: HornetMaX on August 14, 2015, 10:41:28 PM
Quote from: Hawk UK on August 14, 2015, 03:09:23 PM
Handbrake looks like a very nice piece of kit for conversion work Max! Nice one.  ;)
Yep, it's little beauty (and it's free and ad-free).

Quote from: Hawk UK on August 14, 2015, 03:09:23 PM
Can you use Handbrake to tie two part videos together to create one whole video out of the two parts?
Don't think so. But you can find plenty of tiny tools to do that. Google "mkv join" or something similar.
If you want to go full blown, you may try avidemux: but the nterface is fugly.

MaX.