Overview
This is one of the oldest downloaders still in active development, and its longevity is the point. Extraction methods break every time a streaming site changes its player, and the difference between a tool that keeps working and one that quietly stops is whether anyone is still maintaining it. This one has been updated continuously for well over a decade.
The workflow is built around a queue rather than a single transfer. Links are pasted in bulk, each is analysed for available formats, and the whole set downloads with a chosen preset applied. Presets cover the ordinary cases: highest available quality, a specific resolution ceiling, audio only in a chosen format and bitrate, or original stream copy with no re encoding at all for the fastest and most faithful result.
Playlists and channels are handled as units. A playlist link enumerates every entry with a checklist so unwanted items can be excluded before downloading, and a channel link pulls the upload history with a limit control so you can take the most recent hundred rather than everything. Downloaded items are recorded so a repeated run on the same channel only fetches what is new.
The Premium tier removes the daily download cap, the simultaneous transfer limit and the advertising, and enables the higher resolution formats, subtitle download, and the conversion output that re encodes to a chosen container and codec after downloading. There is also a proxy configuration for connections that route through one, and a scheduling option for running a large queue overnight.
Key Features
- Bulk link pasting with a queue rather than one transfer at a time
- Format presets for highest quality, a resolution ceiling, audio only or original stream copy
- Playlist enumeration with a checklist for excluding unwanted entries
- Channel downloading with a limit control and new item detection on repeat runs
- Audio extraction with format and bitrate selection
- Subtitle download alongside the video where the source provides one
- Conversion output re encoding to a chosen container and codec after download
- Proxy configuration for connections that require one
- Scheduling for running a large queue overnight
- No daily cap, no simultaneous transfer limit and no advertising
What Changed in This Build
- Extraction updated for the current player changes
- Faster analysis when a queue holds several hundred links
- Improved handling of age restricted and region limited items
- Conversion presets refreshed with current codec defaults
System Requirements
| Processor | Any x86 or x64 processor |
| Memory | 1 GB |
| Storage | 200 MB plus space for downloads |
| Operating system | Windows 7 or newer |
| Network | Any connection |
Release Details
| Full title | Free YouTube Download Premium |
| Version string | 4.5.14.712 |
| Publisher | DVDVideoSoft |
| Category | Downloaders |
| Licence | Premium, all limits removed |
| Platform | Windows 7 through 11, 32 and 64-bit |
| Interface language | Multilingual, 25 plus interface languages |
| Archive size | 68.4 MB |
| Mirrors | 4 active, all reporting online |
| Listed | refreshed 1 month ago, checked again 40 minutes ago |
Installation Notes
- Use the original stream copy preset when you want the fastest download and no quality loss, conversion costs time and fidelity.
- Set the simultaneous transfer count to something your line can sustain, too many at once slows all of them.
- Keep the application updated. Extraction breaks whenever a streaming site changes its player, and the fix arrives as an update.
Before You Start
Read the notes above before running setup. Most of the problems people write in about are covered there, and almost all of them come down to an older version of the same software still being installed, a graphics driver that predates the release, or a security suite quarantining part of the package mid install.
There is no archive password on this or any other entry in the library. If something you downloaded elsewhere claims to come from here and asks for one, it did not come from here. Nothing on this site is behind a survey, a shortener or a countdown either.
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Frequently Asked
Streaming sites change their players, which breaks extraction until an update lands. That is normal for every tool in this category.
The daily cap, the simultaneous transfer limit and the advertising, and it enables higher resolutions, subtitles and conversion output.
Yes, with a limit control so you can take the most recent items rather than the entire history.
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