Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by mig, Paul
4,035 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Marian, 4 years agodysfunctional without payment - how is it possible that this is not mentioned in the profile on mozilla's page??
takes up an astounding amount of resources of the PC - Rated 1 out of 5by scarb, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15183693, 4 years agoUninstall on June2024.
NO LONGER BE ABLE to download all videos format without watermark - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16435239, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13096233, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Chuckles M., 4 years agoPuts a watermark in the corner covering about 15% of the screen. They don't tell you this until after the download completes.
The watermark is basically ransomware, requiring $28.50 to obtain a new version that doesn't ruin your downloads. Moving on to a new addon. - Rated 1 out of 5by Michael P. Shipley, 4 years agoHuge memory leaks. Went up to 2.4g before I purged it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by RomHeu, 4 years agoI've tried Video DownloadHelper as a YouTube-DL alternative to download a paid video I had rented on Vimeo. The extension offers to downloaded the 1920 x 1080 pixels DASH stream, and downloads it fast, but then it launches a transcoding (called an aggregation), even though I've disabled "Force H264 tuning in aggregation", which would have taken hours. It turns out the free version adds a watermark, which requires post-processing and transcoding. My understanding is that you have to pay €18.50 for a premium license to get fast downloads without transcoding.
I have turned to Downie 4 by Permute's developer Charlie Monroe, which is also paid at €18.99, but has the advantage of being up front about it. Alternatively it is included in the Setapp subscription service. It has a cleaner interface and it works with Chrome and Firefox as well as Safari and Opera, alas only on macOS.
tl;dr: Video DownloadHelper should clarify its freemium business model on its official website and in its browser extensions. - Rated 1 out of 5by dearroz, 4 years agoThe download helper use to be very good, but now it no longer provides the same service. Previously it provided multiple options for downloading a video but now only provides one from ADT. ADT is extremely slow in downloading and often the download fails to complete. On occasion it downloads the video but not the audio. I use it both on Win 10 and Linux Open Suse.
The problems I am guessing occurred via some updates, not sure if it was Firefox or Download Helper. I did not make any changes so it had to be a change in the software. I wish there were a better plugin since this one no longer provides proper service. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16416972, 4 years agoUsed to be great and helpful; now it doesn't work anymore without some shady "companion app" (i won't install your software outside Mozilla, sorry). Uninstalled after years of use. Pity.
- Rated 1 out of 5by N FF M, 4 years agoI understand that they need funding for this add-on but £18.50 seems excessive considering there are several free alternatives.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jeyson, 4 years agoSoundless videos, watermarked videos, or not detected at all. Too many struggles for such popular extension.
- Rated 1 out of 5by kazerniel, 4 years agodoesn't save video, only audio, even with the companion app installed (also it says it would watermark converted videos)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lucas, 4 years agoThis addon doesn't mention that it requires a paid license until it finishes downloading and converting the videos you save by adding a watermark. If they noted this before use I wouldn't be bothered; however, they don't mention this until *after* the video has finished processing which took nearly 20 minutes for a 4k video.
- Rated 1 out of 5by NimaSakibo, 4 years agoYou need a third party app AND a payed license to convert stuff. I can't even download most of the videos at all, and if so not as mp4 or another normal format.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14967874, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Thom R, 4 years agoWorthless. Hangs. Not Intuitive to use. Progress halted on "aggregating" step, and then nothing happens after numerous attempts. I have already deleted it. It is of no value whatsoever.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Frank DiMichele, 4 years agoPerformed very poorly on test download of PBS video from youtube. The format in free version is very limited (if it ever completely downloads). It took extremely long to download file and never completed. The companion software was no better. I think this great extension is no longer that great. I would consider paying for software from many vendors that actually maintain good code and gui for this purpose or use one of many websites that do the job for you.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fenix, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by mario lanza, 4 years agoNo sirve, es una trampa que te pide instalar software malicioso
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16398216, 4 years ago