June 2019 update: I was early on advised by David from the Allavsoft support team - who, by the way, I have found to respond very quickly, usually within an hour or two - that you can get additional control over the preferences by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking your mouse on the "Preferences" menu option: (It’s an AMD Ryzen 7 processor with 16 CPU threads) and I have a quite fast broadband connection (HFC cable running usually at 90-95 Mbps during off-peak times.) I would like to see this limit raised to at least 10 simultaneous downloads, or even 20, because my system is quite powerful and could handle this. The maximum is seven simultaneous downloads. If you do multiple concurrent downloads, the (as shown in screenshot D) you can control how many are allowed to run simultaneously: There’s a handy context menu (right mouse click) that makes it simple to select various options, as follows: (This recommendation was added in the June 2019 update of this review.) I tend to do my video downloading in bursts, and a terse mode would be very efficient for me.Īt the very least, I would like to see the thumbnail images reduced in size by 50 percent, which woukd immediately allow more downloads to appear in the Download pane. So I would very much appreciate being able to switch to a terse display mode where each download was on a single line (without a thumbnail image, or maybe with a tiny one), enabling 3 or 4 times as many downloads to be viewed without vertical scrolling. Except, as my second request to the Allavsoft developer team, that I found (after doing a bunch of multiple downloads) that in practice each individual download takes up too much screen space. Screenshot B shows a nice, easy to understand user interface, nothing to complain about here. When downloads are occurring, you click on the “Activity” tab and see something like the following: It would be better if the list box was made deeper, so that you can paste more URLs and view them without scrolling up and down. This will allow the entire window to be made smaller by removing all that wasted space in the bottom left quadrant of the window. To initiate downloads, you press the big blue button at bottom right (pointed to by the green arrow).Īnd here’s my first recommendation to the Allavsoft developer team - that this big blue download button can be made smaller and it should shifted up adjacent to the “Convert” section. If your list contains more that three URLs, a vertical scroll bar appears, but if you like (see bottom dashed red arrows) you can drag down the bottom margin of the window to increase the depth of the list box. Referring to screenshot (A): the default is to process a single video URL but (where the solid red arrow is) I wanted to process multiple videos from a miniseries, so have pasted their multiple URLs into a list box (dashed red arrow at top). I’ll only cover things that I found to be important for a seasoned downloader, leaving out details in order to reduce the length of this blog post. If video formats are important to you, I strongly recommend that you take it for a test run to check out the conversion capabilities.īecause Allavsoft is very straightforward to install and operate, I’ll not discuss this and will only be giving a few main impressions and certainly not a detailed step-by-step run-down on the product. It so happens that most of the videos I download are in MP4 format and I don’t want to convert to some other format, so I won’t be covering this aspect at all. When Allavsoft has finished downloading a video file it optionally can convert from the original file format to another (for example, from MP4 yo AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB, ASF, RMVB, DV, TS, Apple ProRes, WebM, FLV, OGV). I’ll outline some of Allavsoft's download features below, together with a few enhancement suggestions that I reckon will turn it from a very good product into an outstanding one - especially for somebody who downloads lots of videos (from YouTube, or any of the many other video sites that Allavsoft supports). NOTE: this review was originally posted on 08 June 2018, and was updated on 28 June 2019 to correct some typos and streamline the document flow as well as adding a few extra points that impressed me during a full year of consistent and heavy use of Allavsoft. After having used it for several weeks I really do like its core capabilities, and am very happy with the purchase. My first impressions were very positive, so I immediately purchased a licence. I’ve gained some experience in downloading video files over that last decade or so, and thought that I knew a fair bit about what’s tools are available.īut, much to my surprise, there was one very nice product called Allavsoft Video Downloader and Converter for Windows which somehow I didn’t come across until just a month or two ago.
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