Downloader 6 Complete guide

How to download streaming videos

If you’d rather quickstart guide, here's a video guide.
If you have download errors or detection problems, read the FAQ.

I - Overview

VSO Downloader 6 is a software allowing to download media from Internet.
It's designed for unexperienced users but provide advanced features for users with higher degree of awardness.
As state in french laws, No DRM media can be decrypted with this software.

II - Basic usage

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  1. General setup
    • License information
      Open License information panel. It reports your license information and allow to activate your software if needed
    • Community
      Open the community menu allowing notally to join the VSO software translation program (to improve software translation quality)
    • Settings
      Open the Downloader settings panel allowing to set application wide configuration (see chapter III] Settings)
    • Help Menu
      Open the help menu containing notally:
      • Open Log: to consult application event journalization.
      • VSO technical center : to report bug to the VSO team for fixing.
      • Various links to Downloader manual, video guide and FAQ
      • Manual update: to manually check if software upgrades are available.
      • About: consult software version information (Downloader, download engine, FFMPEG)
  2. General controls

    WARNING: Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is a form of digital encryption.
    Protection is applied to the copyrights of multimedia files to control or limit their distribution.
    Our software cannot download a video with this protection.
    For example, a video on Netflix cannot be downloaded with our software because of DRM.

    • Download modes
      VSO Downloader 6 offers 3 modes to detect and download media:
      • Manual mode:
        In this mode, you can freely enter URL manually in the dedicated field or drag/drop the URL from the browser. The software will seek the webpage for media to download.
        Note that more and more video are hidden by lot of technical means: If a media fails to be detected in manual mode, it has more chance to be detected in Radar Mode.
      • Clipboard mode:
        This mode is analog to the previous one except that urls are scanned from the clipboard: you just have to copy the media URL for the download to be added.
      • Radar mode:
        The radar mode is really the simpliest to use and also the most accurate one:
        Navigate with any browser to the page with the video or audio you want to download, (play the media if not already detected) and the media will appear in VSO Downloader download list.
        The bullet near the radar tells you the number of candidate urls in the scanner queue.

        Radar scans web traffic induced by your browsing experience in order to track presented media.
        As this mode have all browser informations, it can detect a lot more media than other modes.
        Note that most of videos requiring to be logged will only be detected in this mode.

    • Download Folder
      Open the destination folder in you file explorer
    • Clean Finished
      Remove all finished downloads from the list.
    • Sort downloads
      Sort download list according date, filename or url
  3. Individual item controls
    • Start download
      Start and pause media download.
      When finished, you can either double click the download item to open it with your media player or click the folder icon to open it in your file explorer
    • Close download
      Remove download from the list without deleting downloaded
    • Download Settings
      Allow finer configuration of your download by explicitly choicing
      • Video resolution:
        Most streaming platforms propose several resolution of the same video. You can select which one you want to download.
      • Subtitles language:
        This control which subtitle tracks you want to embed in your final downloaded video.
      • Conversion:
        Force the desired output format. If downloaded don't fit these requirement, it will then be converted.
        Conversion formats available are MP4 (frequent format), MKV (multi-purpose), MOV (apple users) and MP3 (for audio)
        More formats are available in ConvertXtoVideo, our all-in-one conversion tool. Try it out!

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    • Download details
      Give useful information about your download as well as advanced features for experienced users (explicit stream selection, headers customization...)

III - Settings:

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