More about the 'Video DownloadHelper' addon: Get started instructions, FAQ In case you're using the addon itself instead of JD to download, it will sometimes save the downloaded files to the following location: collect a lot of them and want to download them the next day.Įxpired download-URLs will usually be displayed as offline ('File not found') in JD. Please keep in mind that such URLs often only last for several minutes/hours so better start downloading them right away as they might expire if you e.g. Now add the copied URL to JDownloader and wait until it appears in the LinkGrabber.Now pick your desired quality and click on the arrow to the right -> Copy URL.

If there are multiple resolutions available you most likely want to choose the highest streaming quality/video-resolution that it is selectable in the overview.įor some websites, you might need to look for items tagged as 'DASH Streaming', 'HLS-Streaming' or such containing a video resolution such as '1280x720'.ĭo not get distracted by the sometimes very small file sizes listed there - the video you get in the end should have a more reasonable file size.Īs you can see, in some cases the same quality might get displayed multiple times which is not a big deal. The 'DownloadHelper' Icon in the top right corner of your browser should become active. Open your streaming content and click on play.Install the browser addon Video DownloadHelper (Firefox/Chrome).This guide shows how to download a video/audio stream from a website if one of the above cases applies. However, sometimes an 'easy' download is not possible because a JD plugin for the website you want to download from: These plugins are the reason why it is often easy to download from a particular website.

JDownloader has a lot of plugins - many of which are for streaming websites. Posted by pspzockerscene psp, Last modified by pspzockerscene psp on 07 October 2022 12:26 PMĭownloading video/audio streams from (unsupported) websites

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