youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and many other sites. It is very up-to-date and typically responds very quickly to changes on the YouTube website which causes trouble for other downloaders.
Use cases: | download video |
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) |
Stealth: ? | Yes. Can save cache to the user's profile, see more here. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Unlicense FOSS |
How to extract: | Download youtube-dl.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
What's new? |
See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases |
ffmpeg is a video and audio converter that is capable of (among others):
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Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, image, subtitles and related metadata.
It is a popular audio video converter and can also grab streams, device inputs as well as output them.
It contains the following tools:
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Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
FFplay is a very simple media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly for testing but can be used as a standalone player.
Get it as part of FFmpeg.
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Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
ffprobe gathers information from multimedia files and streams and prints it in human- and machine-readable fashion.
Get it as part of FFmpeg.
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Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |