When it comes to performance, however, the app leaves a large footprint: over 500MB of RAM. The conversion is also relatively fast we were able to convert a four-minute FLV file to an MP4 in about 20 seconds.
The download is generally fast, but it depends of course on your connection. As soon as you land on a page with embedded audio or video content, Mac Video Downloader will pop up a window through which you can choose which file to download. The browser, itself, behaves just like Safari with one exception: it lets you change the User Agent between Mac, iOS, and Android, effectively emulating the Web browsers of mobile devices. This premium app manages to detect approximately 90 percent of all videos, with a 100 percent success rate for popular sites like YouTube and Vimeo, but it eats a lot of system resources.Īfter a quick installation, Mac Video Downloader launches its built-in browser. Featuring a video converter and a Web browser with an embedded media downloader, Mac Video Downloader for Mac helps you find and grab audio and video files from virtually any video-sharing Web site.
