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All the Best YouTube Downloader is a small, light-weight computer program that lets you save Adobe Flash FLV, Silverlight, WebM, QuickTime, RealMedia videos, and various Live Video Streams from Internet websites like YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Fora.TV, EarthCam, and many others! It works with all modern browsers!

Record Live Video Streams and Broadcasts!

Capture live video streams and broadcasts from live events, news websites, webcams, and other online resources!

Record live news, TV channel online broadcasts and shows, sport events, webcams, radio broadcasts, and all kinds of live video feeds from various websites like CNN, BBC, and many others!

Capture Live and Record Webcam Videos!

Record live videos from webcams! All the Best YouTube Downloader allows you to capture live video feeds from sites like EarthCam and many others, where video content is coming from webcams and video cameras in real time.

Save Flash, Silverlight, WebM, and other Videos!

Nowadays the most popular video format on the Web is Flash Video served as FLV/MP4, however other types of videos are also common, including: Microsoft Silverlight served as Windows Media Video - WMV, Apple QuickTime served as MOV, and RealMedia served as RM/RAM. All the Best YouTube Downloader lets you save all these types of videos*!

All the Best YouTube Downloader 5 was the first downloader to offer support for the emerging HTML5 video standard - WebM.

Save HTTP Dynamic Streaming / HDS Videos!

Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) technology is being increasingly used by more and more websites to deliver high-quality on-demand videos online. All the Best YouTube Downloader 7 is capable of saving such videos!

HDS videos are usually served as F4F, F4P, and F4M video fragments streamed over HTTP on demand. Our Video Downloader is able to capture all these fragments and assemble them together into a playable video file - all in real time as you watch the video in your web browser!

Works with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Opera!

The program supports all modern web browsers! As long as you can watch a particular video in your browser, you can save it with All the Best YouTube Downloader... period! Thus, the program supports all versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari, Netscape, and other web browsers!

Save Internet Videos with just One Click!

Don't do anything! All the Best YouTube Downloader automatically detects when you begin watching a video in your browser, and begins saving it immediately! At the same time it asks you whether or not you want to save a video. If you do, you just click Save; and if you don't, you click Cancel, and the program will stop downloading it. That's it! You don't have to look for URLs and paste them somewhere, like you do with other downloaders; simply watch and save simultaneously!

Convert Flash FLV Videos to AVI, MP4, MKV!

All the Best YouTube Downloader 7 provides enhanced video conversion support for Flash Videos (FLVs). FLV files, and derivative video formats such as RTMP-based and Adobe HDS videos, can be automatically converted to either MP4, AVI, or Matroska MKV video container files, which can be viewed on more video players and mobile devices like tablets than do regular FLV files.

Enjoy Web Videos Anytime & Anywhere!

By saving a video from the Internet with All the Best YouTube Downloader, you'll be able to watch it anytime and anywhere, as you won't need to worry about video's availability, Internet connection, and a whole bunch of other issues! All the Best YouTube Downloader protects you from losing any of the videos you like due to their modification as well as temporary or permanent removal from the Internet!

Save HTML5 WebM Videos!

All the Best YouTube Downloader is the first Internet video downloader to offer support for saving HTML5 WebM videos, which is the emerging new video format for the Web.

Save Videos Automatically in the Background!

Starting with version 5, you can now save all videos that you watch automatically in the background. That is: instead of displaying a dialog asking you to enter a name and chose a location for the video, the program will automatically save the video in the background to the specified folder.

While this saving mode is optional, when active it allows for more convenience and leads to a better user experience, as you won’t even notice that the program is actually running and saving all those videos automatically!

Save Time & Money - Don't Waste Bandwidth!

Videos are usually large in size and take time to download. On slow Internet connections, like dial-up, some videos can take hours to download!

Unlike with other programs, with All the Best YouTube Downloader you only need to download a video once to save it, that is as you browser is loading / playing the video, All the Best YouTube Downloader is saving it in the background!

This way you save your time by watching the video while the program saves it in the background! And you save money too, because by saving a video as it's being loaded by your browser, All the Best YouTube Downloader also saves you bandwidth (you use less traffic, as a result your pay less to your ISP)!

In fact, you don't even have to watch a video to save it per se - all you really need to do is to load a page with video on it, and wait until your browser finishes the download.

99.9% of All Websites are Supported!

In great majority of cases, as long as the website offers videos in the video formats supported by the program, you can save it!

Very Light on System Resources!

What's really nice about this product is that it requires only very few system resources, like processing power and memory. In fact it requires so few, you won't even notice it's actually running!

Integrated YouTube Video Downloader!

With integrated YouTube Video Downloader you can download multiple videos in one batch! You can also download entire playlists and courses.

Videos can be downloaded in desired format (MP4, FLV, 3GP, WebM) and quality (720p or 1080p vs 360p for example). In addition, if a video you want to save has 3D content available, you can instruct the program to download the version with 3D content. Ability to download videos in 60fps format is also available.

When downloading playlists, you can specify the starting and ending video indicies, so that only specific videos from a playlist are downloaded; but you can always download the whole playlist as well.

All videos are saved with friendly names, generated from titles retrieved from YouTube. Videos that are part of a playlist are conveniently out into a single folder named after the playlist.

Save RTMP Video Streams!

You can capture and save live as well as recorded RTMP video streams. RTMP is a popular protocol to deliver streaming or live video content on the Internet used by numerous websites like BBC iPlayer.

While free tools like rtmpdump can also capture RTMP content, they can be quite difficult to use, as most of them are command-line based. RTMP capture in All the Best YouTube Downloader, on the other hand is super easy to use. When the program detects a new RTMP stream in your web browser, it will automatically ask you if you want to save it!

Recording RTMP video streams in All the Best YouTube Downloader is literally as simple as watching them in your web browser!

Better than Screen Capture or Direct Download!

All the Best YouTube Downloader works by automatically saving video content that your web browser has already downloaded! This is not the only approach to save videos from the Internet, but it has many advantages over the other approaches:

  • The simplest approach! You really don't have to do anything: just start watching a video and the program takes care of the rest!
  • No bandwidth is wasted as the content is downloaded only once by your web browser!
  • Video quality stays unchanged and videos look just as good as in web browser, unlike with screen capture!
  • You don't have to provide any login information, copy-paste URLs, or do other cumbersome things, like you may with direct download approach.

Save High Definition (HD) Videos: 1080p, 1440p, 2160p and up

YouTube and some other video websites now offer the ability to watch videos in High Quality (HQ) / High Definition (HD) modes - 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, as well as beginning with version 7: 1440p, 2160p, and 3072p. The physical dimensions of the video, color depth, and other settings are significantly improved in HQ/HD modes and the videos look much sharper. This is why you should always save HQ/HD version of a video if it is available.

And All the Best YouTube Downloader is one of the few programs that lets you easily save HQ & HD videos in any of the above modes! This works exactly the same as with regular FLV videos, the only difference being that videos are being saved as either MPEG-4 video files (MP4) or WebM video files (WebM), instead of Flash video files (FLV).

Doesn't Install any Drivers or Services!

The program does not require any additional drivers or services than those that already come with Microsoft Windows! So it is really light weight and does not get in your way!

Watch and Save Videos without Ads!

Quite often, as you watch videos on the Internet, different ads will be shown below and even right over the videos. While many of such ads can be turned off, they are still very distractive and steal your attention from the video content you are watching! The good news is that All the Best YouTube Downloader will save the videos without saving any ads! So whenever you play your videos later, you will get a much better experience!

Save Videos from Password-Protected Sites

The problem with url-based downloaders is that they simply do not work for password-protected videos and websites! That's because you have to log-in in order to watch a video, and the downloader just can't do it!

Only All the Best YouTube Downloader can save password-protected videos! Even more so, it can save streaming videos, or videos whose links expire too quickly! Remember, as long as you can watch a video in your browser, then All the Best YouTube Downloader can save it for you!

Stop Losing Videos that You Like!

Internet is such a dynamic place that it changes literally every second! Online content is not forever! It may be modified, moved, or removed altogether – at any time, and without any warning! This applies to web videos too: not only can the videos be altered and their parts cut out at any time, but lots of entire videos themselves become unavailable every day – due to their removal or changes to their geographic availability!

So, be ready for this! Don’t risk losing videos that you like! Save them with All the Best YouTube Downloader as soon as possible - before they are banned, removed, deleted, or modified!

Download Multiple Videos Simultaneously!

With All the Best YouTube Downloader it’s possible to download more than one video at a time! You can easily save 2, 3, or more videos simultaneously - all at once!

Save Your Videos to Portable Devices

You can easily save videos in avi, mp4, and wmv formats, making them playable on various portable devices, including: iPhones, iPods, smart phones, communicators, media players, etc.

Does not get in your way!

The program silently runs in the background, monitoring incoming Internet traffic for the videos it can save. Yet you can easily access it either from system tray in the lower-right corner of your screen, or by using various hot-keys to control program's operation.

Save Videos from YouTube with YouTube Downloader

In addition to saving videos simply by having them played out in your web browser; you can save YouTube videos with integrated YouTube Video Downloader!

Downloading YouTube videos directly with integrated downloader, as opposed to capturing them from your web browser has several advantages:

  • You can save multiple videos in one batch
  • You can download entire playlists, courses, and even whole channels (all user's videos)
  • You can specify the quality and format you prefer
  • Videos with 3D content can be saved
  • Videos in special 60 frames per second format can be saved
  • Save videos in ultrahigh resolutions (UHD): 1440p, 2160p, 3072p!
  • Videos are saved using friendly file names based on titles retrieved from YouTube
  • Choose whether to download video with audio, video-only, or audio-only
  • Downloads can be automatically resumed in case of timeouts

How All the Best YouTube Downloader Works

Watch All the Best YouTube Downloader in Action

Video presentation below features an older version of the product, but all the shown features as well as operating mode apply to the newer version as well.

Why All the Best YouTube Downloader?

All the Best YouTube Downloader is better than other downloaders!

While there are many video downloaders on the Internet these days - both free and paid - only All the Best YouTube Downloader offers the ease of use and convenience - packed with features that you are looking for!

All the Best YouTube Downloader is better than screen capture!

Videos from the Internet can of course be saved in other ways. For example, you can use screen capture and screencasting programs to record video as it is being played on the screen, at the same time capturing audio output from your speakers.

All the Best YouTube Downloader is better than direct downloads!

Another method to save videos from the web is to whenever possible download them directly. This is a preferred method if a website featuring a video you wish to save provides an easy way to do it or you know the working URL to a video file.

Why Bother Saving Videos from the Internet?

It is always a good idea to save web content that you like on your computer, as it may not be available in the future. This includes web videos. Below are some of the reasons why you may consider saving videos on your computer:

Info for Geeks

Feel free to skip this section unless you need to see all program options or feel like reading some technical notes.

Customize All the Best YouTube Downloader to suit your needs

Be sure to check out program options to customize various aspects of program's functionality. In particular:

  • Verify the program is using proper Internet connection
  • Check the timeout settings
  • Configure User Interface elements
  • Specify which videos should be saved
  • Set preferences for saving videos, such as default suggested name, autosave location, preferred format, and others.

NoteCertain options apply to live videos only.

TipYou can learn more about these options in the User Guide.

Options Window

Technical Notes

Protocol SupportThe product does not currently support RTP and UDP protocols, and videos streamed in these protocols will not be detected or saved. In addition, RTMPS, RTMPE, and RTMPT variants of RTMP protocol are not currently supported. Support for these protocols is planned for future versions.

Video ConversionVideo conversion is available for FLV video format only. While in most cases converted videos can be played on modern portable devices, there is no 100% guarantee that converted videos will be playable on such portable devices, as different devices have varying support for video and audio codecs.

CompatibilityProduct is not guaranteed to work correctly if any file sharing applications, other downloaders, or network/bandwidth monitoring tools are running at the same time; or if the product is running in a virtual environment (under a VM).

TimeoutsOccasional timeouts may occur for a number of reasons: the connection to a website from which video is being saved is slow or unreliable; the CPU usage is consistently high; network monitoring tools are running; etc.

Are there any shortcuts in the program?

The following shortcuts and hot keys are available:

In the main window:

  • Double-Click on the completed download to open the corresponding video file in your default media player to watch it.
  • Alt+F4 - immediately stop all downloads and exit the program.

System Tray Icon:

  • Double-Click on the system tray icon to show/hide the main window.

System-wide (you do not have to be in the program’s interface for these shortcuts to work):

  • Ctrl+F1 - show YouTube Downloader.
  • Ctrl+F5 - skip all videos the program detects. All videos the program will come across will be skipped, and you will not get prompts to save them. Normally you would press this combination before you are about to begin watching a video or videos you know you wouldn’t want to save. This has no effect on the already active downloads.
  • Ctrl+F10 - stop monitoring your default Internet connection, so that the program will never ask you to save videos.

What is Flash Video?

Flash Video is still a very popular video format on the Internet, although its popularity is now declining due to increasing prevalence of HTML5-based video players. In the recent past popular websites like YouTube, Google Video, and many others were using it as their default video format! Basically, Flash Video is one of the main formats used by the still wide-spread Adove Flash Player.

What is WebM Video?

WebM is an emerging video format designed to provide royalty free high quality video compression in an open format for use with HTML5 video on the Internet. The project's development is sponsored by Google. A WebM file consists of VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams, in a container based on a profile of Matroska. The project releases WebM related software under a BSD License and all users are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license.

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