Reviews for Ant Video Downloader
Ant Video Downloader by ANT
1,900 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by FVBryM, 4 years agoI'm updating my review from 4 years ago when I gave it a 1 star rating.
This add-on has become one of my go-to download sources since my last review. The speed, number of sites supported, and clarity of settings has improved dramatically! I will say as well that should you come to a site that requires an additional [? plugin] to download a file, IT IS PERFECTLY SAFE.
Kudos to the developer[s] for making this one of the best download add-ons around!! - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13186980, 4 years agoWorked fine till about 2 weeks ago when firefox updated. Then pushing the icon, appeared as pushed, showing the place where the window should open but nothing appear. I removed addon and reinstalled, I even removed entirely Mozilla Firefox and cleanup profiles folders. The result was to work for another day. Too bad, it was a good program.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tasos, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15383177, 4 years agoBy installing the additional program, it is indeed possible to record movies. Without the additional program, it is impossible.
First downside: Since December 19, 2020, films have been recorded without the duration information, or rather 00:00:00, which is a problem for playback from a disc on the server on the livebox.
Second downside: since the last update you forced us to do, it is impossible to record movies on some sites like http://gopzay.com or http://evdod.com or http: // kempox .com / or http://piopar.com/
And this on my 4 PCs. So I will say:
Worked great before December 19, 2020 and hasn't worked at all since the last Update in 2021.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for your report!
Please provide us with more details about the video duration problem so we could investigate it and prepare a fix.
Please contact with the link to the problem video to our support here: https://www.ant.com/support_form - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16573610, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by brummgrammierer, 4 years agoPerfect! Worked on a site where all other downloaders I tried (VideoDownloadHelper, Video Downloader professional, and Download Video and Flash - HD Download) failed to even find the video.
Thank you to the Ant R Team! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14063289, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AmbroseCadwell, 4 years agoThis add-on works for downloading videos from an embedded Vimeo-based source of the sort where you can't reach it via right-clicking or 'inspecting element' etc., the sort that a lot of these sorts of programs miss. Very pleased.
Make sure you click on the 'settings' wheel next to each video that comes up on the list to make sure you have the highest quality version of the video selected before you download- If I'd recommend any changes to the creators of this add-on it'd be to make the highest-quality version e.g. 1080p the default selected when a batch of the same video is detected as a single item like this.Developer response
posted 4 years agoMany thanks for your report and ratings!
Usually the highest quality is selected by default for streaming protocols that support such option. Except the cases when it was imposed directly by the website options. In further version of AVD the quality selection will be available right under the title of detected video without having to select it in the menu. - Rated 5 out of 5by Edward Morden, 4 years agoThis is the most reliable video download utility I have ever used. It works with all sorts of odd video hosting sites and sites that actively try to prevent you from downloading like YouTube. My only complaint is that there is no Linux native app so you can only use this on Windows. Mozilla should do a code review and add this to their list of trusted/recommended apps.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoMany thanks for your report and ratings!
Continuously solving current problems, our developers are simultaneously working on a new cross-platform Native Application that is planned to release in the 5th AVD version. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16547653, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by wich, 4 years ago
Developer response
posted 4 years agoPlease note that AVD may not detect some new, protected or not supported protocols.
Please contact with the link to the problem video to our support here: https://www.ant.com/support_form- Rated 4 out of 5by Eprog35, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Don, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13828126, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16527416, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Richard Bass, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alinivar, 4 years agoThe add-on and companion application function perfectly for me, no download limits like the video downloader I use, bug free, its ad free which I didn't expect to see and it doesn't redirect to a website like y2mate or some derivative to download the video. The quality of the video is based on the selected quality that is playing in YouTube so change it to something like 360p/720p maybe if you are saving on HDD/SSD space. It also registers some memes I get on Discord for download too funnily enough.
The only thing I could nitpick is the file format it comes out in on YouTube is .mkv which is a small price to pay for free video downloading as all you need is VLC player or an online file converter to .mp4 or .mp3 if you really need that and you are set. An internal converter for output to mp4/mp3 would be the icing on the cake but as far as I'm concerned this suits my needs well enough.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for your detailed report and suggestions.
Your report has been forwarded to our developers with new feature request related to output format and quality selection.