There are countless hours of video on YouTube. Literally. And that is hardly the most astonishing statistic about the website, which has been the go-to destination for watching and uploading the video because 2005. Nevertheless, sometimes, you want or wish to have only one of those videos on your own computer or phone.
After the subject of downloading YouTube videos comes up, there is a negative subject that has to be broached: Is it legal?
On the copyright front, as long as you’re downloading a video for your personal offline use, you’re probably okay. It’s more black and white when you consider Google’s terms of support for YouTube, which reads:”You will not download any Content if you don’t see that a’download’ or similar connection displayed by YouTube about the Service for this Content.”
Multi-lingual 4K Video Downloader (4KVD) is frequently updated and contains clear download links on the program’s website; no ad traps here. The software does what it advertises in a simple interface: grabs videos around 8K in caliber and downloads to plenty of formats. Just copy a YouTube URL and click on the Paste Link button to Begin. 4KVD will even grab subtitles, entire playlists, and all the movies in a station where you subscribe. The sites supported are confined to the large names such as YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and a few others, but covers the majority of everything you need.
In tests, I needed to make a change from MP4 to MKV format to receive my test video to download in 4K. It defaults back to 1080p HD, so that I made the exact same switch when downloading an Ultra High Definition (8K) playlist. If you allow the Smart Mode and its pre-sets, 4K Video Downloader can then do one-click downloads to your favorite format. If you want to download over 25 movies at a time or join to YouTube channels to instantly download the latest, that requires the 15 paid version.
The program itself has an option to extract audio to MP3 format, so you don’t also need the 4K YouTube into MP3 companion applications in case you’ve got the original.
WinX YouTube Downloader
Digiarty’s multi-lingual WinX claims to allow downloads from 300+ sites–such as adult sites. Perhaps the biggest selling point of all is the claim that “There isn’t a malwarespyware, adware, virus or spyware. 100% clean.” The most recent version has a much-improved interface too. There are advertisements, though–on setup, I had been asked to update to its $29.90 merchandise for Windows and macOS named VideoProc, which does all that WinX does, but for 1,000+ sites, plus offers some editing for luxury 4K/UHD video.
When you copy a YouTube URL (even for a playlist), click in the WinX program to start. You start with the”analyzer,” which assesses all the options. This tool also tried to default to the 1,920-by-1,080 version in MP4; I picked the 4K variation (3,840 by 2,160 pixels) from WebM format, a subset of the MKV format–you can rename a .webm file to a .mkv and it’ll work fine. In settings, there are choices to default to WebM at the greatest res. You are able to establish lots of movies to back up before you even click the download button. The 4K 575.4MB file took 1 minute and 39 minutes to download, more than double that of 4K Video Downloader.
I couldn’t find options for downloading closed captions. That’s another attack against if you need that function. But WinX makes up for this by encouraging so many download sites and using a price equivalent to nothing.
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