Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by vdh
Review by Mighty Mohb
Rated 4 out of 5
by Mighty Mohb, 8 years agoThe product works great - you can go watch a streaming video on the internet and you can save it to your computer, so you can watch it all you want without being connected to the internet after that. However, it's kind of a joke when you're trying to figure out how to use it - it is so illogical (to me anyway, I'm only a computer geek) that I have had to reduce myself to just clicking things and seeing what happens. When it doesn't work, you just have to go back and start all over again. No biggie. It's not like I have a life or anything. Then, with no warning, they occasionally upgrade you to a new version that doesn't work like the one you had finally figured out, so you have to learn how to use it all over again. (They say "congratulations!" and inside you're thinking, well, I can't use those words in this review). On the plus side, it does exactly what you want, once you figure it out - you can save a video you're streaming to a file on your computer and watch it all you want later. Video DownloadHelper is very good at that, and as far as I can see they are head and shoulders above anyone else. That last bit is what truly matters.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16879634, an hour ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mosef, 2 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19628785, 2 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19628713, 3 hours agoPuts a giant watermark on the downloaded videos, uninstalled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14504258, 6 hours agoIs perfect to download a serie or any content and with the smart naming feature, the task of naming is very easear
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15930469, 8 hours agoI can recommend this video only to those who download many videos in large batches and need a GUI, because ffmpeg downloads much faster, while having an ability to merge subtitles into a .mkv file among many other things.
- Rated 1 out of 5by --a, 11 hours agoVersion 10 is completely broken. Had to revert to the old one. V10 cannot download any large videos, esp. with typical free streaming servers which often have network issues. The older versions can deal with that (not perfectly, but eventually it works). There are lots more new bugs. And I really don't need the UI to be redesigned all the time, esp. when that breaks the most important feature.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19628200, 12 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gunstr, 13 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15497104, 15 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SU-80, 15 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15533885, 16 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dorayakichan, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19616798, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13626950, a day agoworks great for me ! easy to use and fast , at some point a few years ago it didnt work in some sites , but other than that it is a great addon !!
- Rated 5 out of 5by a v a, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by MagicMau, 2 days agov10 breaks lot of sites. reverting back to v9, everything works again
- Rated 5 out of 5by maro, 2 days agoGreat addon. I use it for years with just occasional trouble usually solved by update.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12868711, 2 days agoLike others I have reverted to Version 9.5.0.2 and will cease all updates going forward
- Rated 1 out of 5by Me232, 2 days agoПосле обновления не находит видео на страницах!Например на vkvideo.ru,просто надпись "Ожидание видео" и всё.Жаль,хорошо работало,но разработчики решили сломать...
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ducky5264, 2 days agoCe n'est pas la première fois que je modifie mon évaluation et de nouveau pour une MàJ qui ne sert à rien hormis dérouter les utilisateurs. Cette MàJ n'est ni plus ni moins qu'un retour en arrière et pas franchement réussi. Mais pourquoi donc casser une extension qui fonctionne bien par une bouse sortie d'on se sait où? Que diable a-t-il pris au développeur de faire une telle MàJ ? Il y aurait un quota de MàJ à publier quitte à retirer une version qui fonctionne bien? Pour ma part, je reviens à la version précédente et je bloque les MàJ en attendant des jours meilleurs.
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This is not the first time that I have changed my evaluation and again for an update that serves no purpose except to confuse users. This update is nothing more or less than a step backwards and not really successful. But why break an extension that works well with a dung from who knows where? What the hell did it take for the developer to do such an update? Would there be a quota of updates to be published, even if it means removing a version that works well? For my part, I"m going back to the previous version and I"m blocking the updates while waiting for better days.