Nowadays, there are many tools that can download videos and music from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other websites. If you haven’t found one you like, or prefer a tool with a simple interface, then you can take a look at “yt-dlg”. It is a free open source download software, a GUI version of the well-known youtube-dl downloader. It is easy to operate and supports batch downloads. More importantly, the download speed is very fast and it also supports multiple format options.
yt-dlg is a free open source downloader (youtube-dl GUI) that can download videos and music from websites such as YouTube and FB.
The installation file of yt-dlg can still be downloaded from the official website and is also available atMicrosoft Mall, it depends on which side you want to install it from. If there are no special requirements during the installation process, just keep pressing Next. In addition, although the process is all in English, it will become Traditional Chinese after installation, so don’t worry about not understanding it:
After opening it, you can start using it. It is mainly divided into three parts. At the top, paste the URL of the video you want to download. In the middle, you can set the download storage location and the format you want. At the bottom is the download list. After adding to the list, you need to press Start to start downloading:
At the beginning, it is recommended to set the download storage location first. By default, it will be stored under the user’s folder. This location is quite strange. You can adjust the format part later when you want to download:
I took YouTube as an example and pasted the video URL. Select the format you want on the right. The video section includes webm, mp4, and the audio section includes mp3, m4a, and vorbis. These are just some of the formats. You can enable more formats in the settings later:
After selecting, click Add and it will move to the download list below:
You can add multiple URLs to download at one time, even different websites are no problem:
Then the download will start. The download speed is very fast and completes in less than a few seconds:
This product also provides simple editing functions. When you open the right-click menu on the downloaded audio and video file, you will see the “Edit Multimedia Files” function:
Set the start and end positions you want to keep:
The default downloaded YouTube MP4 format is 720p quality. Those who want a higher quality can add it in the settings:
You can find it in the format page of settings. The checked ones will appear in the format list before downloading. Just check what you want. There are many format options for video and audio. There are post-production options at the bottom, including “Keep original file”, “Retrieve audio from video file”, “Embed thumbnail in audio file”, “Add annotation data to file”, and set audio quality:
In the general page, you can set the language, file name format, and support dark themes:
Subtitles can also be downloaded. They are not downloaded by default. You can open them and specify the language if you want. This one can also be directly merged with MP4 videos, which is pretty good:
I also tested Facebook and Twitter with no problem. To put it simply, youtube-dl can be downloaded and this tool can be downloaded:
Source: KOCPC Chinese