How to speed up youtube downloads

Hamster · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:53

Youtube is incredible slow for me these days. Is there any kind of software which speeds up downloads? I've tried Speedbit Video Accelerator but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Hamster · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:40

Thanks for repying.

Greenlizard0 said:
Hmm..it could be your ISP throttling your downloads..

I'm with virginmedia (cable) who don't throttle bandwidth but their routing to youtube could possibly be an issue.

ConfusedTA said:
If you're using www.youtube.com, try using uk.youtube.com instead

Thanks but made no difference i'm afraid.

Now i'm looking into freeware that will download a long list of youtube vids and convert them into avi files overnight.

Hamster · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:52

MarcLister said:
Kewl.

So you copy and paste all the links to the YouTube vids into this app and it downloads them and converts them overnight?

Please keep us updated if you have any luck.

That's the kind of think i'm looking for. Been searching and testing a few apps for the last couple of hours with no great success. Will post back here if i do though.

unknowndomain said:
Not 100% true, Although its not likley to affect you VM does throttle all bandwidth when you reach the on peak download cap to about 50% of normal speed depending on the service you are using.

You're absolutely correct. I'm on 20Mbit and get throttled to 5Mbit for 4 hours after downloading 3Gb between 4pm and 12am. What i should have said is the kind of severe throttling that some ISPs enforce which slows certain types of downloads to an absolute crawl which is not something VM do (at present).

Hamster · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:56

bigmouse64 said:
Maybe the youtube servers are what limit your speed.

That is very likely the case. However, commonly, downloading multiple threads from a source increase the total download speed. If that is possible with an app such as speedbit (which claims to do) then that is what i'm looking for.

Hamster · 30 Aug 2007 at 01:20

please ignore. Thought i had stumbled upon a good piece of freeware but it has crashed my pc twice already!

Hamster · 30 Aug 2007 at 15:40

Sinque said:
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MarcLister said:
That 5 meg download thing is crap then? What kind of crashes were you getting?

I was trying out 'youtube catcher' but using it caused my pc to completely freeze 3 times in a row (no keyboard/mouse response)

Hamster · 31 Aug 2007 at 12:30

After testing practically every youtube downloading software i could find, i have finally found the holy grail!

It's vdownloader. 3Mb size and freeware.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/VDownloader.shtml

Using it's built-in browser, you just browse youtube, find your videos and click on 'download' at the top. It downloads and converts the files to .avi files, giving the .avi a proper filename unlike most of the other software i have tried. It will also download and convert lots of files at the same time.
Converted 62 videos last night and it worked flawlessly.

HTH