![]() It is understandable that it takes longer time if the video is large in size, also the download speed is greatly decided by your Internet connection status.In my test of a 105-minute video download, Winx took about 23 minutes to finish. Still, the video analyzing for these websites is less stable than that on YouTube. Since Winx YouTube Downloader supports downloading videos from other 600+ websites, so I did tests to download videos from Facebook and DailyMotion. And the speed of video analyzing will greatly depend on your Internet connection status.Īnd according to my test, Winx does much better to analyze individual video than that from a YouTube Playlist, since some videos in the playlist is tagged as untitled and there is no meta data can be found. I did another test on a 2-hour match video, it took me about 3~4 minutues to finish the analyzing. The process of video analyzing is the key to decide if you can download the video successfully or not.Īs for the analyzing speed, it took 3s to analyze a 5-minute video, which performs quite fast when comparing with other YouTube downloaders. In my opinion, the interface of Winx YouTube Downloader is intuitive and quite user-friendly, especially for users who want to batch download YouTube videos. For each video, you can preview in the right panel to make sure you are downloading the right YouTube video. It has 4 toolbars with 2 different interfaces, including a Settings interface enabling users to customize the output.Īlso, it allows user to clear the downloading list or list of completed tasks. If you have tried other YouTube Downloaders, you must have realized that Winx’s is relatively user-friendly. Here we will talk about its performance in following 4 aspects. However, given the current free license promotion, I thought it would be worth it to say a few words about the program.Whether Winx YouTube Downloader worth a try or not, that depends on how good the program it is to download a YouTube video. The advertising in the program is minimal, so I haven’t paid for the ad-free version. From there, the program does its job quickly and reliably every time. By comparison, most other video downloader programs are installed as browser extensions– and I prefer not to weigh my web browser down with a bunch of extensions and plugins that aren’t needed 99% of the time.īeyond the fact that it’s a quick, streamlined application, what I like about 4K Video Downloader is that once I’ve configured it to my desired settings (video resolution, output folder, etc), all I need to do is paste a YouTube link into the application to begin a download. It’s a lightweight stand-alone application, which is great. There are plenty of unofficial programs and web browser extensions which enable educators to download videos from YouTube, but my personal favorite is 4K Video Downloader by OpenMedia LLC. This is understandable, but the one-size-fits-all approach stymies educators’ fair use rights. YouTube, the 800 pound gorilla of the online video world, does not offer an official downloading feature– presumably because many of the important rights holders of content on YouTube (such as music labels) forbid video downloads for commercial reasons. However, even when rights holders do not provide a download feature, it’s fair use to download a temporary copy of an authentic listening passage for classroom use. If I want to show my class a lecture from TED.com, for example, I can easily download it as an MP4 file for lag-free, bufferless, 100% reliable classroom viewing, because all TED talks are Creative Commons licensed for free distribution. Of course, this works most easily when the rights holder of the video provides a download feature and explicitly allows and encourages people to download copies for offline use. With those issues in mind, I prefer to download videos in advance rather than streaming them directly from the source website. ![]() Buffers can freeze, connections can drop, and intrusive unskippable advertising can rob the class of 30 seconds or more. However, I’m wary of trusting the reliability of video streaming websites. For example, recently, to complement a textbook unit whose theme was marketing and advertising, I showed an authentic video from YouTube in which a marketing consultant talked about the challenges which DVRs have introduced to television advertising. Up-front disclaimer: This post is being written to fulfill the terms of a promotion.Īs an ESL teacher, I often show authentic videos in my classrooms.
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