unable to download videos from YouTube

[Richard Plecenik]

For the past 3 days I have not been able to download videos from YouTube. When I click the arrow for the video that I want, I get a blue flag. But when I click on the save button, the flag turns red. I tried reinstalling the extension but get the same result.

Is there any way to find out why a video is red flagged?

[Wild Willy]

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/orAHFdaLbUE

[M Harrison]

I don't want to appear disloyal - I've used VDH for years with Firefox (also a constant companion since Netscape Navigator days) and encouraged many family members and friends to install it in its full fat converter version - but some battles are maybe best to walk away from? 

It's good to know that the development team has just doubled, and the fact that the new recruit used to work for Mozilla is particularly encouraging. Indeed I would suggest that Firefox has been behind the demise of a number of add-ons, as they suddenly became incompatible. Some recovered, some didn't.

But my solution for YT videos is simply to use *eplay *edia *atcher from *pplian which often gets me quickly out of downloading problems, and also extracts mp3 files from music videos with a right-click. And no headaches.

If I hear that the YT issue has been solved, I'll be glad to return to VDH for that purpose, not least because it's good to have all my downloads in one dwhelper folder, and VDH does just about everything else so well. And the advice in this group is excellent 👍

Just a thought.

Mike 

On Wed, 7 Jun 2023, 11:51 Wild Willy, <grampaw...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/orAHFdaLbUE

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[sa...@celestialway.org]

This started to happen to me two days ago. I can't download anything now. I have the latest version of VDH and Firefox, and everything was downloading fine until yesterday, so I think YouTube may have changed something that prevents VDH from working properly. I get the little red square within a few seconds after starting a download. How does one ask VDH to look into this and correct the problem (and notify us when it's been fixed)? I just see posts from users like myself.

[Wild Willy]

You are not paying attention. Read. READ the above posts. Especially the one from me.
There's a link there. CLICK IT.

[Mike]

M Harrison, thanks for the tip!  I've tried it, seems to work great, no need for fake accounts and doesn''t seem bothered if vids are restricted. Trial version includes full YT functionality, high DL speeds and works with Chrome too (trial version only DL's 50% of file lengths from all other sites).