VGrab
1Why there are so many addresses
While you watch, the player fetches a lot: the playlist of the film, a pre-roll ad, trailers, dozens of thumbnails, sometimes background music. Other downloaders list all of it and leave the choosing to you; pick wrong and you get a thirty-second ad.
How VGrab picks
It looks at the format and content of each address, never at the site name: how long it is (seconds means an ad or a trailer, tens of minutes looks like the film), how many quality levels it has, whether it is a segmented stream. Once it has found the film it picks a sensible quality (480P by default, the closest one if that is missing, and the one actually used is written on the button) and puts it first.
How to use it, two steps
- Open the video page and press play (as soon as the player makes its requests, VGrab hears them).
- Click the VGrab icon in the toolbar. The film is already first and a quality is already chosen — click Save.
Questions
What if it picks wrong? Every other address is still in the list with its duration, quality and size; click a different one. The thumbnail slot even shows the first frame of that video so you can tell at a glance.
Why 480P by default? Sharp enough on a phone and small on disk; want more, tap another quality in the same row.
Other features
- Streaming video downloadHow do stream segments become one playable MP4?
- Section downloadCan I download just twenty minutes of a video?
- Many parts at onceHow does a download finish in minutes, not hours?
- Live recordingCan I record a live stream while watching it?
- Resumable downloadWi-Fi dropped halfway — can the download resume?