How to download streaming videos

Getting started!

If you’d rather video quickstart guide, here it is.
If you have download errors or detection problems, read this.

Download VSO Downloader, install and run it after installation. You have 3 modes to download your videos:

Manual mode:
Click on the hand, you can enter URL manually in the dedicated field or drag/drop URL from browser.

Clipboard mode:
Click on the clipboard, you just have to copy media URL for the download to be added.

Radar mode:
Click on the radar, when the animation comes, it’s active. A bullet appears on the radar and tells you the pending url count in the scanner queue.
Navigate with any browser to the page with the video or audio you want to download. Play the streaming file (in the case it doesn’t start playing automatically) and as soon as the media (audio or video) is detected il will appear in VSO Downloader.

Your radar is on and it can't find your video ?
Please, go on the video web page and make a Ctrl + f5 to refresh it.

Let’s take YouTube. You should see something like this:

Different options are available on the file:
You can start/resume, pause, stop (if still in progress).
You have had a download error? Click on restart download and the download will start again from scratch.
To rename the file, click on the name, when renaming, forget about the extension, just name your file and press enter: the extension will apply right away.
You can click on show/hide download settings before the complete download. Choose resolution, sources and add subtitle.
More formats are available in ConvertXtoVideo, our all-in-one conversion tool. Try it out!

Once the file is successfully downloaded, you can either play it with the default media player on your PC.
Click on case will open the folder where your downloads are stored.
The output folder is indicated and can be changed in Settings > Download > Download folder.

WARNING: Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is a form of digital encryption.
Protection is applied on the copyrights of multimedia files to control or limit their distribution.
Our software cannot download a video with this protection.
For example a video on Netflix cannot be downloaded with our software because of DRM.

Community

- Support us: A link to our web site.
- Join VSO translation program: Want to help us translate the software? It’s this way.
- Social Networks: See you soon our social networks.

Options

Click on Settings. Here are displayed different categories as below:

downloader settings profiles

General
- Language: Choose your language.
- Translator ID: Apply your own traduction present in VSO Translation Program.
- Download mode: Choose between our three download modes and it will be automatically assigned when you open the downloader in the future.
- Update policy: Choose preferred options for update notifications & installation.
- Purge: Purge your items on Close.
Download
- Working folder: Location of the folder used by VSO to extract and process your files.
- Download folder: Default directory where finished downloads ends.
- Maximum simultaneous info fetching: Choose your maximum of info fetching in simultaneous.
- Maximum simultaneous downloads: Choose your maximum of downloads in simultaneous.
- Maximum simultaneous conversions: Choose your maximum of conversions in simultaneous.
- Preferred resolution: Choose between our resolutions and it will be automatically assigned at your download in the future.
- Preferred subtitle(s): Choose your favorite subtitle(s) and it will be assigned at your futur download if your video has it.
- Auto start newly added: Add to your software startup your newly added.
- Automatically generated subtitles: Generate your subtitles automatically on your next download if your video has it.
- Authentications: Use it as needed to sign in to an account to access at your future download video, to exemple with Vimeo.
Media Detection
- Media size filter: Choose your minimum media size in MB, below that, media is excluded from downloading.
- Mime type filtering: Exclude urls with these types from delection, it’s a filter.
- Forbidden headers: Remove these headers from scanned requests.
- Ad filtering: Filtering ads to block them.
Conversion
- Conversion profil: Choose a common conversion profils (for advanced conversions, check ConvertXtoVideo).
- Enable audio normalization: Allows you to adjust the sound volume of your audio tracks to make your listening/watching comfortable.
Accessibility
- Zoom factor: Difficulties at reading the text? Use the zoom to increase the visual size of the software, or decrease it!
- Application theme: Find 2 modes, dark and light, choose your camp!

Not convinced by your previous settings? Reset them to default values.

Help, About, Support

- Help: Find differents tools to help you like VSO technical support, tutorials and a link to our forum.
- Update: Check for any software update
- About: Find your current software version information (Engine, FFMPEG and program uses)