Wat is your favourite video downloader software?

[the_randomizer]

just use common sense, opt for downloading torrents with a good amount of seeders and positive comments.

I'd rather not have my ISP track me, and I've used Peerblock before, but it screws up Steam chat so I don't use it.

 

[PuNKeMoN]

People, people, people. Let's be honest here about this topic.
Personally I just stream the porn. No room on my HDD for something I'll only watch once anyway.

 

[Deleted User]

what i like about using torrents is that you dont have to skim through dozens of ads and pop-ups on regular sites to download the files.
however you must be very careful, trojan horses, adware, miners, run wild in torrent sites.

Again, that's what makes youtube-dl so great. It's FOSS, so once you get used to the command line, you can instantly download stuff from YouTube without having to put up with pop-up ads and the like that are commonplace on so many of these sites.

 

[Kyuuketsuki]

For YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion and Netflix I use DVDVideoSoft's Free Studio (premium), which Netflix was removed recently (so I recently stopped updating to keep the feature until my Netflix expires).

Though for most sites, an extension on FireFox. Video Download Helper, because it's the best at sniffing out the files that are embedded into web pages.

 

[Deleted member 377734]

Tubemate on Android, it can download from multiple platforms and is fast and reliable as hell.

 

[urherenow]

your browser downloads the video. The best tool is not being lazy. copy them from temporary internet files.

 

[Shadowfied]

youtube-dl is fucking godly and supports over 1100 sites. All the commands it has are amazing too, options to rip audio, support for playlists and channels on YouTube which makes it great for archiving.

I use WGET for Windows. It works very well for large downloads over unreliable internet connections.

Does wget support videos in any other sense than a direct linked video file?

 

[danwellby]

There is a tool for downloading from Iplayer that is nice to have but it would likey violate the tos of gbatemp to say it by it's name

 

[Flame]

I'd rather not have my ISP track me, and I've used Peerblock before, but it screws up Steam chat so I don't use it.

Peerblock is useless anyway.

 

[the_randomizer]

Peerblock is useless anyway.

Then what do you suggest?

 

[Flame]

Then what do you suggest?

a good VPN.

 

[the_randomizer]

a good VPN.

Pay money to pirate things, yeah no thanks. I don't like torrents anyway because some ISPs are dicks about it, not to mention virus risks, so...I'm good.

 

[Flame]

Pay money to pirate things, yeah no thanks. I don't like torrents anyway because some ISPs are dicks about it, not to mention virus risks, so...I'm good.

you would not pay like what $30 to $40 a year to pirate stuff that could cost like $60 on average per item. which you could pirate like almost endless amount of things.

virus? only morons download viruses from torrent websites. if you want download a switch game which should be 1GB plus and you download something which is 1MB called virus.exe

may God help you when you are crossing the street.

 

[the_randomizer]

you would not pay like what $30 to $40 a year to pirate stuff that could cost like $60 on average per item. which you could pirate like almost endless amount of things.

virus? only morons download viruses from torrent websites. if you want download a switch game which should be 1GB plus and you download something which is 1MB called virus.exe

may God help you when you are crossing the street.

I don't plan on pirating newer games, couldn't care less about doing that. I'm more into "archiving" older games that Nintendo pulled off of ROM sites, mostly. I've found a good chunk of those, and 3DS games still available (don't ask ) but torrents are just, meh. I just don't trust 'em, not to mention I can never find a good P2P with a good download speed, despite having a 250 mbps connection.

And I absolutely refuse to seed torrents.

 

[xstre pwnsx]

Youtube-dl

 

[supernintendo128]

I use Youtube-dl. It's harder to use since it's a command prompt app though.