video downloader - CocoCut

About 97% of the time, I am able to download my videos. The feature where it captures the *.m3u8 file is helpful too as I can then use the ffmpeg program (open source) with the *.m3u8 file to download something that isn't easily loaded (the other 3%). I find this program works really well with ffmpeg. It's really rare that I can't use Cococuts to download a video. There have been many times where I have purchased a product containing videos and they say you have "lifetime access"...but we... Show more

Maybe my use case just doesn't align with what was intended, but I can't see this making life easier or replacing any of the methods I already have in place. It doesn't work on YouTube for presumably Google's TOS (not the developers fault, but still a negative) So I tried it on Pinterest, an example of a site that uses the whole "BLOB" video system; Cococut can detect the files but can't preview them, and when they're downloaded they don't work in VLC player. I was hoping to find a easier sys... Show more

Looks like they slow downloads unless you choose the "Pro" version(not just by not allowing multi-download either, the plugin throttles). You can use another similar plugin on the same video and speeds will be faster than with this plugin. I started noticing the download speed had diminished quite a bit over the past few months. I don't know exactly which version or when this started happening, since I don't really use it a lot. If you want something comparable that is free, currently "S... Show more