![]() ![]() ![]() I haven't done any intentional testing of them for that purpose. I don't know if the applications listed below would be useful in downloading videos from sites other than YouTube. ![]() I think that behavior was abandoned by YouTube even before they started abandoning the cache in /tmp behavior. Hence, I'm not very hopeful that there will be any way to download YouTube videos on a tablet (like the iRulu), or, eventually, probably not even on a PC.Īnother behavior that some video download applications depend on is being able to find a URL on a webpage and recognize it as the address of a video file. ![]() YouTube seems to be intentionally getting rid of that behavior. Many of the applications to download YouTube depend on old behaviors of YouTube-in particular that it used to cache a copy of the video somewhere on the downloading machine-on Linux, typically in /tmp. That seems to be a difficult thing to do, and I am not alone in suspecting that Google / YouTube intend that it be difficult. My main goal is to download YouTube videos for later playback while not connected to the Internet. 'll try to ramble as little as possible (for me)! I will be experimenting with it to confirm that it does that-it did ok for one movie, but then I realized that it was a movie that had previously been watched on the iRulu, and I'm not sure that it hadn't somehow played it from a cached copy of the movie that was already there. It looked promising-it is an application to view YouTube videos, but it also promises to preload videos at "strategic times" (mcow-my choice of words) (like during charging) so that I can either watch them offline or online without pauses and stuttering. I downloaded an application named YouTube. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the feature disappeared about the time that I upgraded to version 7.1.0.Īnother nice feature of Videoder is the ability to pick the desired resolution from a fairly wide range of choices. Update: That feature used to exist, but I haven't been given the option recently. If I chose the option "always", I'm not sure what I'd have to do to get the choice again. The availability of this feature may depend on your habits with the iRulu-so far, whenever I've been given the opportunity to choose an app to use to open a particular type of file, I've also chosen the option "one time only", which means I get the opportunity to choose the app each time. One particular nice feature of Videoder is that if you are in a browser and go to play a video, you will be given an option to use Videoder, which gives you the opportunity to view (within Videoder) or download the video. Playback of a video (in some other application) does not exhibit this problem. (So, I sit there with the iRulu in landscape mode, and then when I switch to the Videoder (download) display, I have to either rotate the iRulu (or my head ) by 90 degrees. Videoder persists in displaying in portrait mode, despite the fact that I do everything else in landscape mode, and that occurs even though I have set the system to not rotate the display.I have written to the developer again to try to get confirmation that the problem is fixed but have not yet received a reply. (I was at 7.0.0 at the time.) It still doesn't seem to work for me in 7.1.0-I didn't put much effort into trying to get it to work-I may be doing something wrong (although it's hard to imagine what). I notified the developer of my problem, and got a reply that indicated that it was, indeed, a bug and that they would fix it in the next update. When I try to use my hardwired Ethernet connection, it does not work. Videoder works (for me) as long as I'm connected to the Internet via WiFi.I don't yet know if that new version addresses any of my complaints (next two bullets). I had downloaded and installed 7.0.0 some weeks ago, and recently, when I started Videoder, I was notified that an upgrade was available and given the option to upgrade-I did, and I'm now at 7.1.0.)) UPDATE: It is now at version 8.5.0, and it says so on the Videoder home page. (Further note that the latest version is 7.1.0, but the download page still refers to version 7.0.0. Installation is easy-iirc, after downloading it, I just "clicked" on the file, and was prompted to install it. Videoder is not available from the (Google) Play Store-here's a link to download it.There are three (minor) drawbacks at the present time: Primarily, I can download (Youtube and other) videos (at a speed faster than normal playback speed) and save the video in a file for playing later. I found Videoder a few weeks ago, and it meets almost all my needs. ![]()
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