3D Youtube Downloader Changelog

What's new in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.20.2

Nov 26, 2023
  • support for Youtube handles

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.20.2 Beta 1 (Oct 28, 2023)

  • Added support for Youtube handles (basically yet another form of channel URLs)

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.20.1 (Oct 25, 2023)

  • Fixes for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.20 (Aug 28, 2023)

  • support for multiple audio tracks on Youtube
  • fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.20.0 Beta 1 (Aug 25, 2023)

  • Added support for multi-language audio on Youtube. When selecting audio tracks automatically, program now downloads original audio track. In case of manual selection all available audio tracks are listed now in the format selection menu with the language name appended to the audio description
  • Fixed possible error downloading from Youtube caused by the changes on the site

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.17 (Nov 8, 2022)

  • Few fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.16 (Sep 10, 2022)

  • Fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.15 (Aug 21, 2022)

  • fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.14 (Feb 23, 2022)

  • Ukrainian translation

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.13 (Feb 7, 2022)

  • fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.12 (Jan 3, 2022)

  • few fixes for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.12 Beta (Dec 22, 2021)

  • Fixed Youtube throttling. They started using bandwidth throttling as additional way to disrupt accessing media data. It is similar to error #403, but unlike the latter, where you get an error when failing to deobfuscate signature, in this case you get slow download speed. Note that Youtube still applies rate limiting (it always does), but this limit is greater than the file bitrate, so with multipart download this anyway results in a good enough download speed
  • Improved initial connections establishment when file download starts. For example, when Parts limit per file is set to 16 (default), these 16 connections are now established about 10 seconds faster than before
  • Fixed "HTTP 410" warning. Due to internal changes on Youtube some of extra requests being made during analysis are no longer valid and produce this warning - these now have been removed
  • (experimental) added option Advanced dl.max_part_size_mb. It controls maximum part size to download. After this amount of data is downloaded, connection gets dropped and re-established again. Rate limiting on Youtube is turned off for first N megabytes (where N varies - probably depends on the file bitrate), so with this option it is possible to utilize full network bandwidth with a fewer number of connections (i.e. with lower number in Parts limit per file option), or even with a single connection. But again, note that this is experimental feature, which is not guaranteed to work in all cases
  • Binaries now include Node.js to deal with JavaScript-based obfuscation on Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.11 (Jun 30, 2021)

  • Hebrew translation

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.11 Beta 1 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Added Hebrew translation.

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.9 (May 31, 2021)

  • Fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.9 Beta 1 (May 19, 2021)

  • Fixed inability to download some Youtube videos (when log says "error 404"

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.8 (Apr 26, 2021)

  • Bulgarian translation

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.7 (Apr 11, 2021)

  • fix for Windows XP

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.6 (Apr 8, 2021)

  • fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.6 Beta 1 (Apr 5, 2021)

  • Fixed possible error #403 when downloading Youtube videos.

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.5 Beta 1 (Nov 15, 2020)

  • Added Japanese translation. Thanks to Latooour!
  • Fixed not working Youtube search (the WEB way, the API way was not affected, read details about these ways in this topic)
  • Fixed intermittent Youtube error 403 caused by internal change on the site

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.4 Beta 1 (Jun 20, 2020)

  • Added Indonesian translation. Thanks to CROSSFiRE net!
  • Fixed inability to get more than 100 playlist items when non-API way is used. Note, you can set up Youtube API key to bypass such kind of errors. More info: Playlists and search on Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.3 (Jun 20, 2020)

  • Fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.3 Beta 1 (May 11, 2020)

  • fixed possible error No video found on Youtube caused by internal change on Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.2 Beta 1 (Apr 6, 2020)

  • Fixed possible error #403 when downloading Youtube videos

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19.1 (Mar 30, 2020)

  • Dutch translation

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19 (Mar 7, 2020)

  • alternative way to load playlists and search on Youtube
  • more search filters

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.19 Beta 1 (Feb 10, 2020)

  • Switched to other way for searching on Youtube and loading Youtube playlists and channels. Quota limit of embedded API key has been reached 12 times for last 30 days, making it not very reliable. And finally few days ago Youtube kindly requested to describe how API is used by the project. So here comes an alternative way. The API way is still supported but only when custom API key is specified. Read more in this topic: Playlists and search on Youtube
  • Added new search filters: Upload Date group and features Live, Creative Commons, 3D for both WEB and API search ways; features 4K, 360°, VR180, HDR for WEB way

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.18 (Jan 24, 2020)

  • options to control output filename
  • few fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.18 Beta 2 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • added option Common File name. Previously there was no way to adjust file name in Simple and Convert modes. Now, if this option is set to Ask, program shows Save as... dialog box during the downloading (right after analysis is done) so it is possible to change output file name this way. Option works only in Simple and Convert modes. In Advanced mode, since analysis there is separated with actual downloading, it is possible to change output file name using Browse button like before
  • added option Common If the file already exists. Previously, if the file already existed, program asked whether it should be overwritten. Now in addition to that there are two more options: overwrite without asking and rename output file (add an unique number at the end)
  • fixed Save as... dialog box being incorrectly shown by Browse button in Simple and Convert modes if analysis has already been done before. In these modes via Browse button can be selected only output directory
  • fixed Compression option from Converting Settings not being saved if window is closed immediately after the modification
  • incremented minor version due to addition of new features

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.18 Beta 1 (Jan 13, 2020)

  • fixed inability to perform any Internet requests for some users. By default since 7.67 libcurl uses connection to localhost for internal communication between threads when performing DNS lookup, and such activity might be blocked by firewall. As the results in such case program cannot initiate any Internet request. Switched to old DNS lookup strategy for both internal and bundled libcurl

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.17.3 Beta 1 (Dec 9, 2019)

  • fixed inability to download Dailymotion videos due to internal change on the site

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.17.2 (Dec 9, 2019)

  • added DoH support (DNS over HTTPS) for those who would like to use this feature but does not want to or has no possibility to configure it system-wide. Corresponding options group is Network DoH. It includes few predefined DoH servers as well as possibility to specify custom server.
  • improved analysis performance
  • updated libcurl and underlying libraries to the latest versions (libcurl/7.67.0 Schannel zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 nghttp2/1.39.2). External libcurl has also been updated (libcurl/7.67.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 nghttp2/1.39.2)

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.17 (Oct 25, 2019)

  • functionality to Pause/Resume processing
  • few fixes and enhancements

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.17.1 Beta 1 (Sep 26, 2019)

  • Restored Pause/Resume functionality. It was removed in 1.15 during to switch to single-pass processing (when both downloading and transcoding/remuxing go at the same time) as not applicable that time. Now it was reimplemented
  • Made Browse link be a split button and other actions over destination be in its drop-down menu. Hyperlink-like control for Browse is not the right use of link controls and was causing not frequent but still regular questions how to select output directory
  • Pause/Resume buttons are shown in place of Browse button when processing is in progress. This way it is supposed to be more convenient than in pre-1.5 versions where Cancel button was a split button and they were part of its menu

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.13 Beta 1 (Sep 19, 2019)

  • fixed inability to retrieve YouTube streams info if some of them are larger than 2GB

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.12 (Sep 19, 2019)

  • fixed inability to get YouTube streams due to change on the site
  • fixed error 404 for some streams (so program says it "finished analysis with warnings"). These streams cannot be downloaded so the fix is to properly recognize them and ignore

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.11 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • Fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.10 Beta 1 (Jun 28, 2019)

  • added option Advanced transcode.threads. This is a quick fix for situation when one would want to limit CPU usage at transcoding. Minimum CPU usage would be with value "1". Use greater values to increase CPU usage. When it is set to "0" (this is by default), it picks suitable number depending on encoder (usually this means it uses as much CPU as possible)
  • added option Advanced mux.copy_metadata for situations when one wants to keep metadata from original files at remuxing or transcoding. This option expects list of metadata fields separated by semicolon. Youtube uses metadata in some qualities (e.g. in MP4) to store technical info (for example creation_time - last time when this particular quality was transcoded), so this is not something that intended to be useful in general case
  • tweaked installer in such way that it will use English language if faces problems with locale. Previously it selected Arabic language in this case

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.9 (Jun 28, 2019)

  • fixed possible hang when analyzing media files
  • updated libcurl and underlying libraries to latest versions (libcurl/7.64.1 Schannel zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 nghttp2/1.38.0). Note for XP users: external libcurl has also been updated and now works faster than before (libcurl/7.64.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 nghttp2/1.38.0)
  • reworked uninstaller to be more intelligent in case when one uses program installation directory also for some other purpose: now uninstaller only removes files installed by the program

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.8 (Jan 31, 2019)

  • fixed inability to download some Youtube live streams
  • fixed error #403 for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.7 (Dec 26, 2018)

  • Serbian translation. Thanks to Generalski.rs!
  • added support for AV1 videos on Youtube. These are MP4 DASH videos encoded using next-gen AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) codec. Currently supported only remuxing i.e. it can be downloaded in Simple and Advanced modes. In Convert Mode it will be automatically skipped because there are no codec for it in ffmpeg 3.x milestone. Switch to ffmpeg 4.x is planned in next major release. Reminder: remuxing is lossless operation for the quality unlike transcoding which is always lossy for the video quality
  • fixed #403 error for Youtube (this one rarely happened)
  • updated ffmpeg to 3.4.5
  • updated libcurl to 7.62.0

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.6 (Sep 12, 2018)

  • Fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.5 (Apr 15, 2018)

  • Turkish translation

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.4 (Feb 23, 2018)

  • Fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.4 Beta 1 (Feb 15, 2018)

  • fix for Youtube (error #403)

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.3 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Drag & drop support
  • Fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.2 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Several fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16.1 (Nov 15, 2017)

  • Polish translation
  • Few fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.16 (Oct 22, 2017)

  • Arabic translation
  • UI adaptation for screen readers
  • few fixes and enhancements

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.15 (Aug 21, 2017)

  • live streams support for Youtube
  • one-stage processing
  • context menu for feeds and search results lists

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.14.3 (May 19, 2017)

  • fixed error #403, that was seen for Youtube on May 18. Although there is no such error at the moment of this release, the chance is high that it will be happening from time to time in the future

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.14.2 (May 5, 2017)

  • French translation
  • several fixes and improvements

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.14.1 (Apr 5, 2017)

  • Slovenian translation
  • several fixes and improvements

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.14 (Mar 10, 2017)

  • improved chunked DASH download. Simultaneous download of multiple chunks (up to the number specified in Parts limit per file option), reconnect on failure and performance fixes. I.e. basically everything that it must have. So it is moved to regular process, i.e. option dl.chunked_dash was removed
  • improved logging. Improved performance, separated logging sources, added more severity levels and moved log options to context menu of Log window
  • enhanced progress notification. Now it is displayed in intermediate state when progress is not known (at analysis and at beginning of download, when progress is not yet determined). Composite progress (i.e. progress for more than one stage or file at the same time) is enhanced for chunked DASH: now it displays progress for every chunk (example). Also fixed redrawing of composite progress when contrast theme is used
  • fixed Youtube #403 error and inability to play some age-restricted clips
  • fixed LiveLeak; removed mediabom.tv (dead)

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.13 (Feb 1, 2017)

  • Greek translation
  • initial support of chunked DASH streams. Basically that means more qualities for some clips (example with chunked DASH streams and without them for this clip). Experimental feature, in 1.13 will be disabled by default. Can be enabled using option Advanced dl.chunked_dash
  • extended option Priority of formats to support format pairs (read option description for details)
  • added per-connection speed limit option. This is not overall speed limit, thus not very convenient, but it is at least something. Placed in Advanced dl.conn_speed_limit since it is not user-friendly option
  • fixed the use of internal ffmpeg. Simple and Advanced modes now are fully functional using single exe file
  • fix for Youtube (some clips started giving "couldn't resolve host name" error)
  • updated libcurl to 7.52.1

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.12 (Jan 5, 2017)

  • options to prefer high FPS and HDR videos
  • improvements for media files processing
  • several fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.11.2 (Nov 8, 2016)

  • fix for Youtube, Dailymotion and vk.com

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.11.1 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • fixed 'server error (#403)' for Youtube
  • fixed 'SSL connect error' that happened when running x64 program on Win7 and Vista
  • fixes for Vimeo and Facebook

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.11 (Jun 22, 2016)

  • support for auto-translated subtitles on Youtube. In addition to regular subtitles and ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Youtube has auto-translated subtitles (machine translation of one of regular subtitles or ASR, available only when the clip has some of them).
  • There are always many auto-translated subtitles, so they are moved to separate popup menu 'Subtitles (Auto-translated)', otherwise it would be hard to select regular subtitles if all types will be listed together
  • subtitles menu now will have multiple columns if subtitles count is greater than screen height can display
  • precise selection for subtitles. This feature relates to automatic selecting of subtitles. Previously it was possible to choose just 'Download all' / 'All except Youtube ASR' and 'Never download subtitles'. Now for every type of subtitles (regular / ASR / auto-translated) can be selected any set of subtitles to download. If program will found some of selected subtitles at analysis, it will automatically select them for download.
  • When selecting subtitles, in addition to predefined set of subtitles to choose from it is possible to add custom language tags
  • URL edit box enhancements: selecting all text when clicked; adding protocol to URL when copied
  • fixes for several sites and general analysis optimization
  • fixed Windows XP support. Minimum supported version is XP SP2
  • updated translation. Thanks to Marco C., Cookie Lee, Åke Engelbrektson, AlFipapa, 大眼仔~旭, Edgar 'Fast Edi' Hoffmann, niknik, Yonta, Matt H
  • internal ffmpeg updated to 3.0.2, libcurl to 7.49.1
  • changed naming convention for configuration files. In case of portable version the name of application data directory is also changed from 'appdata' to 'appdata.' e.g. for 3D Youtube Downloader (x64) it will be now 'appdata.3dyd64'.

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.9.3 (Dec 21, 2015)

  • vk.com basic support
  • fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.9.2 (Dec 9, 2015)

  • fps displaying in format description
  • more precise bitrate calculation
  • fix for YouTube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.9.1 (Dec 8, 2015)

  • Hungarian translation
  • fix for Vimeo

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.9 (Dec 8, 2015)

  • Chinese (Traditional) translation
  • extended processing of unknown URLs
  • enhancements for thumbnails and textual info displaying
  • fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.8 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • Chinese (Simplified) translation
  • Team Four Star support
  • fix for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.7.2 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • improvements for Wine
  • AMR support for Youtube
  • Twitter's link service (t.co) support
  • several fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.7 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • output presets
  • taskbar tasks for the presets
  • additional columns for clips list in search and feeds
  • several fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.6.1 (Jun 24, 2015)

  • reworked options tree
  • additional options
  • several fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.6 (May 25, 2015)

  • Swedish translation
  • 64-bit version
  • switch to native SSL backend
  • analysis improvements
  • fixes for Vimeo

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.5.1 (May 9, 2015)

  • fixes for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.5 (Apr 17, 2015)

  • German translation
  • the lists of recent URLs and files

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.4.1 (Mar 18, 2015)

  • Korean translation

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.4 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • pause feature
  • file preallocation on downloading
  • SOCKS proxy support

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.3 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • Czech translation
  • fixes for analysis and downloading
  • per-user installation (no admin required)

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.2.1 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • fixes for analysis and downloading

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.2 (Dec 23, 2014)

  • Spanish translation
  • temporary directory selection
  • analysis speed optimisation and several important fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.1.1 (Nov 26, 2014)

  • Additional formats for Youtube and several fixes

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.1 (Oct 20, 2014)

  • Italian translation
  • formats helper in options dialog
  • fixes for Youtube and Dailymotion

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.22 (Sep 6, 2014)

  • additional media qualities for Youtube
  • support for tedxtalks.ted.com

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.21 (Aug 9, 2014)

  • search autocomplete
  • portable mode
  • crash report possibility

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.20 (Aug 1, 2014)

  • search on Youtube within the program
  • added Slovak translation

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.19 (Jul 28, 2014)

  • fixes for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.18 (Jul 18, 2014)

  • Portuguese Brazil translation
  • fixes for Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.17 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • fully reworked parts related to converting
  • improved analysis speed
  • self-descriptive selection of targets for download
  • removed obsolete commands and options
  • fixes for Youtube due to changes in its internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.16 (Mar 20, 2014)

  • proxy support
  • several fixes related to Youtube

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.15 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Added Convert Mode
  • Fixes few downloading problems

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.14 (Nov 28, 2013)

  • support for Youtube channels
  • support for 3D videos, subtitles and all kinds of the feeds for Daily Motion
  • advanced downloading progress indication
  • fixes for Facebook, Metacafe, Vimeo due to changes in their internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.13 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • Support for Youtube Adaptive Streams
  • Fixes for Daily Motion and Vimeo due to changes in their internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.12 (Oct 24, 2013)

  • added automatic subtitles downloading
  • added media comparison tuning settings
  • improved automatic media comparison
  • fixed several downloading problems

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.11 (Aug 13, 2013)

  • added Polish translation
  • fixes for several sites due to changes in their internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.10 (Jun 10, 2013)

  • playlists support for Youtube and Daily Motion
  • added Veoh (veoh.com) support
  • fixes for Break (break.com) due to changes in its internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.9 (May 18, 2013)

  • video clip duration in thumbnail
  • downloading speed and elapsed/estimated time

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.8 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • multiple audio tracks support
  • removed black areas in Youtube thumbnails
  • fixes for Dailymotion due to changes in its internal format
  • compact view

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.7 (Apr 13, 2013)

  • added customizable download targets
  • WebM analysis improved
  • usability improved

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.6 (Mar 27, 2013)

  • fixes for Youtube due to changes in its internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.5 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • downloading original audio tracks from available videos
  • simple 'one click' view
  • Aero user interface
  • context help
  • fixes for several sites due to changes in their internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.4 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • downloading files much more faster (using multipart downloading)
  • multi language support
  • better handling of 3D video layouts
  • fixes for several sites due to changes in their internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.3 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • more simplified and convenient UI
  • downloading pages for analysis in 3-7 times faster (using HTTP compression)
  • full support of downloading subtitles from Youtube (when available, for example here)
  • now up to 18 video formats on the Youtube page is available for download
  • fixes for several sites due to changes in their internal format

New in 3D Youtube Downloader 1.0.2 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • auto checking for updates