Now there are 3 types of video available on YouTube:
– FLV normal quality;
– FLV higher quality;
– MP4 higher quality (available for iPhone users).

When you click a link below the video that says “watch in high quality”, you see FLV higher quality video. But eventually MP4 higher quality is even HIGHER than FLV higher quality. YouTube’s MP4 files encoded with more advanced codec, have a higher resolution, stereo sound and higher audio bit rate.

Several days ago we updated our software and now you can get the highest available quality video from YouTube with our tools:
– Free YouTube Download 2.2.2.3;
– Free YouTube to iPod and PSP Converter 3.1.2.3;
– Free YouTube to iPhone Converter 2.1.3.3.

And using Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.1.3.2 you can get near audio CD quality sound from YouTube video. Previous versions transform MONO sound to STEREO. It was not really good. The latest one extracts original stereo sound from video files. It’s good 🙂

Today we updated our YouTube download programs. It seems that we managed to fix a problem with disappearing output files after downloading. It happens only if you save video as MP4 files for iPod or iPhone and only with some YouTube videos which contain characters / : * ? ” | in the title.

Please re-download:
Free YouTube Download;
Free YouTube to iPod Converter;
Free YouTube to iPhone Converter.

All our YouTube download programs support HQ YouTube Video now.

We created five new apps:
– Free Audio Converter to convert audio files;
– Free Disc Burner, it’s the Nero killer app :-);
– Free Video to DVD Converter to make video DVDs;
– Free DVD Video Burner to burn video DVDs;
– Free Audio CD Burner to create and burn Audio CDs.

Free Video to Flash Converter has new advanced player skins with more controls, like the BIG play button on the video, rewind and fast forward buttons, volume control, auto load enable/disable and full screen mode preview. I will write more detailed information about this program in my next post.

Here are our regular news about the latest software updates.

From now on all our free converters support AMV format as input. YouTube download tools include special optimised presets for Apple TV. And Free Video to JPG Converter became more functional: now you can specify the exact number of pictures you want to extract from a video file. For example set 50 and 50 pictures will be saved to JPG. The distribution of the pictures will be even along the input file.

Expect you will get more joy working with our free software. From our side we will do our best to develop new interesting and the most important free and working software for you. Keep watching our site, new interesting tools are coming!

Note: we designed the new software installation scheme and we recommend you to uninstall old versions of all our free software before installing even one of our new free software versions.

Last week we released the new version. If you have not downloaded it yet, just do it know. Here is the direct link: Free Video to Flash Converter.

Now there are more than 40 player skins. We added two new basic skins and each of them have six different colors themes. Also we disclosed the player source codes. So if you are experienced in Macromedia Flash, you can download the sources (size: 1.7 Mb, requirements: Macromedia Flash 8), modify them and use by yourself or share it with others. If you want to, just contact us and we will publish your new skin on our site: support@dvdvideosoft.com.

There is a new guide, if you host your site or blog on a Windows server, sometimes after embedding video into your webpage, uploading to a Microsoft Windows 2003 server and then viewing in a browser the player says that the “specified file is missing”. Learn how to fix this problem.

Keep up watching our site. Next version will include a preset editor, so you will have more control over the output video. You will be able to change such parameters as picture size, frame rate and bitrate.

And thank you for the continuous support!!!

Hi Everybody, we have updated all our products yesterday!
Now you can use batch mode, download video and extract audio from Google Video,
Download all updated programs from our freeware page.

Finally Free YouTube Download and Free YouTube Uploader have a batch mode. It means that you can save you time by downloading or uploading several video files during one session.

Now all our YouTube Download software, including Free Online Service, downloads video and extracts MP3s from Google Video too.

Usually we give our products names which describe their functionality. But now in spite of the fact that our software downloads video and extracts audio from both YouTube and Google Video services, we decided not to rename our tools. So for example Free YouTube to MP3 Converter is still called Free YouTube to MP3 Converter.

Thanks to everyone who sent us “bugy files” Free Video Dub became more stable and supports more video files now.

This is the critical update. We worked hard and fixed lots of bugs. We strongly recommend to download and use the latest version version.

Thanks to Wesley Fernando da Silva Sarmento, Mohammed Al-Foulad, Zityi (http://zityi33.fw.hu), HIXXBO, Zafiria Kostopoulou, Javier Alvarez Tello, Udo Staack, Thomas Hermann aka Tjhbk (Http://virtual-Liebe.de), Dr. Peter Posse (http://www.physoft.de), Gabriele Luizi from Brazil, Benny Beat (Catalan) and many other people our tools become better and better!

New languages are
Manager: Slovensky, Arabic, Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Estonian, Danish, Hungarian
YouTube Download: Arabic, Greek, Thai
YouTube to iPod: Danish
YouTube to MP3: Portuguese (Brazil)
Video Dub: French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil)
Video to iPod: Spanish

!!! And almost all our programs are available in German now.

It is rather amazing fact, but now we have more visitors from German than from USA. It seems that it is a good time to translate our entire site to German.

If German is your native language, you are experienced PC user and interested in a freelance job, please write us to support@dvdvideosoft.com.