The insider tip among YouTube downloaders: You can use it to load videos and music at high speed

Fast download, 4K quality or even 8K quality, automatic conversion: these are the main features of a good YouTube downloader. We have a relatively new insider tip that offers exactly that: The Open Video Downloader. Accordingly, the free tool flies pretty much under the radar.

Instead of the popular command line program youtube-dl, the software uses its further development “yt-dlp” as a basis, which offers even more functions for a comfortable download. We’ll show you what the software can do.

Open Video Downloader: Download entire playlists

After installing and starting the Open Video Downloader, all you have to do is insert a video link in the search slot – the software automatically pulls it from the clipboard as soon as you copy the URL from the address bar. Then click the plus icon to add the clip to the queue. Incidentally, this also works with complete playlists from YouTube, so that you can save hundreds of videos with just a few clicks.

You can then specify for each individual clip which picture and sound quality should be loaded. By default, the best available is used. You can also set whether you want to save video and audio or just the sound track – this is particularly useful when downloading music. Open Video Downloader will convert the files automatically.

If you want to use the same settings for all clips in the queue, set them at the bottom of the screen. Subtitles of videos, if available, can also be saved. Finally, click the green download button. Finished!

Secret YouTube downloader in a fancy guise

You should use the settings to select a suitable target folder for the files before downloading. Here you also determine which file formats you want for videos and audio, for example MP4 and MP3. Here you can also set a maximum of 32 videos for the parallel download instead of the 4 – your bandwidth should of course allow for that.

In addition to YouTube, the Open Video Downloader supports numerous other websites, including Vimeo, Twitter and DailyMotion. Here are some hard facts about the software:

• 8K quality supported
• Download private videos from YouTube possible
• File size preview
• yt-dlp is automatically kept up to date in the background

Notice: Under Windows you need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package, which is automatically downloaded and installed during installation.