Video clips can be uploaded and shared on the Internet. VSO Downloader helps you make local copies of online videos, which can be then played on any portable device. The tool can monitor video contents streaming on your browser and let you download them with ease. For this purpose, the program allows selecting which ports to monitor. Moreover, there’s even an option to start downloading contents without confirmation.
The application has a straightforward interface. In addition to creating automatic download jobs, you can add video URLs directly. Multiple jobs can be executed simultaneously, and there’s even the possibility of using various download threads to accelerate the process. The jobs in the list can be arranged and given priority. Unluckily, there are no filters available to separate completed tasks from those that are still running. Instead, you can press a button to erase finished jobs. Fortunately, the downloaded files can be converted to other formats to ensure compatibility with various portable devices. However, not many formats are supported in the free version.
In general, VSO Downloader may not be the most sophisticated of the video downloading tools. However, it is effective in grabbing streaming contents that cannot be downloaded otherwise. Its designers should be more careful because there’s at least one typo in the interface (“wil” instead of “will”).
v4.0 [May 7, 2014]
VSO Downloader - 4.0.0.19 Released May 23rd 2014
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- New sites supported
- Improved support of previously supported sites
- Preview added to see what you are downloading
- Added new audio conversion formats: FLAC and M4A
- Auto file renaming improved
- Added tips for “how to download from YouTube”
- New sorting options of streams
- New search function added to settings
- Better theme support (interface color/design)
- Prompt to play with VMP
- Conversion remux updated
- IP channel compatibility with WebM updated so that downloaded files always play
- Multi stream merger improved
- IP channel delete updated
- Restart works with new protocol
- Downloading progress bar is more accurate for IP channel protocol
- ".json" added to ignored extension list
- Hds progress fixed
- Denmark & Brazilian updated
4.0.0.19
- 0008020: [Feature Request] IP channel: do not display percent progress if waiting for HD fragment
- 0008021: [Bug] more sites supported with HDS protocol
- Danish, Dutch, Vietnamese updated
4.0.0.18
- 0008000: added support for digitaltutors.com and other HDS type streaming sites
- 0008010: [Crash] HDS restart crashes
- not supported protocol updated (displayed more often in interface rather than show no detection)
- "appxbundle" added to ignored extension
- Brazilian & Netherlands updated
4.0.0.17
- merger multi stream safer (WebM)
- accurate stats
- czech, netherland updated
4.0.0.16
- 0007982: [Feature Request] display accurate speed and remaining time
- 0007977: [Feature Request] Give more information about not supported protocol
- F4M detection extended
- HDS frag length safer
4.0.0.15
- 0007936: [Information] status of % of download complete on live recording no longer exists in v4 like in v3
- 0007938: [Bug] live recording downloads with errors and cannot watch final download
- discarded port added: 53 (DNS), 547 (DHCPv6 server), 1900 (Microsoft SSDP)
- italian, netherlands, vietnam updated
4.0.0.14
- remaining time added in interface
- delete item button added
- merger.multi_stream.pas: if unable to remux check stop flag
- 6rooms.com & inter.iqiyi.com support updated
- all translations synchronized with the database
- EULA added: de, fr, pl, es
- Norwegian, Danish updated
4.0.0.13
- 0007929: [Bug] do not detect recursive fragments of multi socket
- doc name manager fixed in RenameFileTmpToFinal()
- interface icons modified
- Vietnamese added, netherlands, french updated
4.0.0.12
- 0007922: [Bug] IP channel: new WebM association support
- 0007924: [Bug] do not start merge if item is deleted
4.0.0.11
- 0007867: [Feature Request] add option: always on top
