Opinions, TubeHunter?

[xanry]

COULD have put this under movies. Put it here due to being more internet biased.
I'm wanting opinions on a downloading program called "TubeHunter" made by Neoretix. Has anyone here heard 'bout it? Tried it out? Tried just the sample version, or did you purchase for the full liscence?

Reason asking on a personal note, I'm wanting a realiable online video/music downloader. They have a nice website design and 'terms of use' and such yet I'm still weary whether or not Neoretix should be trusted (to use the full ver' of Tube Hunter you must purchase it for a liscense key.)

Again, if anyone's tried it, do tell. Much thanks in advance!

[mewrei]

I just use Download Helper for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

Allows me to download the FLV from any website(such as YouTube) then I use Ripzor's batch FLV converter to convert it out http://www.ripzor.com/flvconverter.html

Personally I don't trust anything with the shareware tag(not to say there aren't any trustworthy ones, but I prefer free software)

Plus Download helper and Ripzor are free too. No Shareware, complete freeware.

Oh btw, the AVI and MPEG2 functions on the FLV converter don't work, you'll have to use MPEG1 and convert out from there.

[xanry]

Thank you Mewrei very much!
I have Firefox and never knew about that addon. I'll give that a try. Sweet deal.

[xanry]

Just an update on the subject. I tried using the Convert to AVI setting and...well, it worked! The avi file video played well, at least at first, then it started to get laggy (I used the player DivX; all others failed and didn't seem to 'go past 1st frame' ).

Just thought I'd pass this.

[xanry]

Also, I'd like to note that in the AVI conversion, a 4 minute .avi vid' turned to become half a GIG of space (over 600 mb) woo damn. When I did the same 4-min vid converting into an MPEG1, it turned out as 18 MB. I once used an online converter site to do a few, and each video size by average would equal to the time amount in minutes: 1 min vid = about over 1MB; 5 minute video converted into avi = around 5MB.

I'm curious and trying to figure out what's causing the extra space to be added by using this FLV converter. It works smoothly and quick, but it seems to add more space like fat on steak.

Any suggestions or opinions on the subject would be appreciated muchly. Thanks y'all!


Edit:

Messing around with the converter, apparently part of the deal has to do with the range of Bitrate setting. 600 set at default. Download a 4 minute video, its .flv file will be somewhat more in size, than the sizes I explained in equalization. Convert that .flv to an mpeg1, it doubles (by 600 bitrate). By lowering it down to 170 I definetly lowered the conversion size result...still larger than I expect, but the quality is more "blocky" or whatever that darn word is that escapes me.

So, bitrate happens to be a part of this, but the quality result will differ on how high or low you set the bitrate.
This is what I've gotten by experience here. Just my tidbit to my own questions ;P.