What's new in Ant Video Downloader 4.17
Jan 26, 2023
- Fixed video detection for web site netu.tv / netu.io
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.16 (Dec 28, 2022)
- Native app installer now contains both 32- and 64-bit versions of video converter
- Added separate location for private downloads in the settings
- YouTube: added drop-down for containers and ability to preselect best quality
- YouTube: added ability to download audio only
- Added support of previous per-browser downloads
- Bugfix: Vimeo: some videos are downloaded with the same quality, no matter what is selected in Quick Select
- Bugfix: MPEG-DASH, Vimeo, YouTube Now Playing: audio stream is not preselected when Pre-select best quality setting is turned off
- Various small UI fixes
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.15 (Sep 8, 2022)
- Updated MPEG-DASH protocol and quick bugfixes:
- Temporarily disabled support of HLS byte-ranged videos
- Updated visual style of video list items in the dark theme
- Other bugfixes
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.14 (Aug 12, 2022)
- Optimized version with lightweight interface and new settings.
- Use of NA is disabled by default due to Mozilla policy restrictions! Check Settings — Privacy page.
- We recommend resetting the extension after update to clean the browser's storage.
- Other changes:
- Detected videos are stored only in-memory, not in browser's storage
- ALL VIDEOS page renamed back to DOWNLOADS
- New settings for Scoring, MPD, UI
- New feature: mute/unmute video detection on tab
- New feature: enable/disable video detection and separate protocols
- New feature: context menu (right-click) for video list items (Move to Recycle bin, Show properties, etc.)
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.13 (Jan 17, 2022)
- Rolled-back terser-webpack-plugin from the latest version back to version 5.1.2. The latest version used in version 4.12 probably caused high memory/CPU use on Firefox.
- Other fixes:
- Bugfix: the previous session is not cleared up when the setting is on (Firefox only)
- UI: Popup: added NA version when clicking on the error description label
- Added Options tab on the extension's page at Add-ons Manager (Firefox only)
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.12 (Jan 6, 2022)
- Added setting "Do not display detected videos on All videos page" (turned on by default)
- All videos: UI updates and fixes
- Popup: added Clear list button
- Updated icons
- Updated Clear list dialog
- Added new feature Settings - Reset
- Added new feature Settings - Video detection - Clear internal storage
- Scoring system: added new rules
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.11 (Dec 23, 2021)
- All videos page:
- Added Clear list feature
- Added individual Remove from list button to all protocols
- Added "Previous session" section to list of videos
- Scoring: fixed "Save as" download option
- Fixed links when clicking buttons Knowledge Base, FAQ
- Popup:
- YTNP: removed 'reset' link button; Restart button replaced with Reset button
- Bugfixes:
- YTNP: When canceling video download, it fails with error while should be in the canceled state
- Fixed autocleanup of videos when closing a tab
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.10 (Dec 20, 2021)
- New YouTube protocol. Ability to download videos without Native app, ability to convert videos to MP3 format
- The existing YouTube protocol is now called YouTube Now Playing
- New experimental MPEG-DASH (MPD) protocol (may not download some videos)
- Settings feature
- New UI (popup made compact, new internal pages)
- Numerous bugfixes, scoring rules updated
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.9 (Feb 3, 2021)
- Fixed bug when some scoring videos were downloaded incompletely and refused to play
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.8 (Jan 28, 2021)
- Improved general quality of video detection and downloads
- Added support for Waterfox web browser
- Improved error handling in MPD protocol. The new version of MPD protocol is scheduled for version 4.9
- Bugfix: when downloading video in InPrivate mode, popup displays the old video title instead of the new filename
- Button TRY VIDEO SEARCH replaced with TOP VIDEO SITES
- Added new rules for suppressing video segments, previews, and advertisement
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.7 (Apr 21, 2020)
- Added support of First Party isolation (FPI). AVD can now download videos when FPI is on, as well as using the Tor browser
- Scoring system updates: detection of segments and previews suppressed, fixed video downloads
- HLS protocol: full path to playlist added to configuration dialog. Helps distinguishing different qualities when media playlists are all have the same filename
- Native app: fixed bug in HLS protocol when demuxer.txt file was not deleted
- Native app: when downloading videos in Private mode, the previously used folder is remembered and proposed for the next download
- Native app: ffmpeg version updated to 4.2.2 (helps with some Vimeo videos)
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.5 (Feb 11, 2020)
- Fix to reduce NA processes stack up
- New feature: UI: added buttons for opening temp files directory (top level and this session)
- New feature: UI: added buttons for opening temp files for each video
- Bugfix: video is not downloaded when title consists only of '' char (consists only of forbidden chars)
- UI: fixed display of size of very large files, updated header, updated copyright year, added 'video merging' state to Media page
- Scoring system: suppressed segments detection, suppressed service mp3 files (beeps)
- HLS protocol: up to 5 segment download can fail. Used in some playlists with fake segments (pseudo-segments for reporting stats)
- HLS protocol: fixed bug when playlists contains mix of encrypted/non-encrypted segments
- Small bugfixes
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.4 (Dec 10, 2019)
- New MPEG-DASH protocol handler, which supports segment timelines
- New fast and lightweight scoring system engine
- MPEG-DASH and Vimeo videos are downloaded in separate threads (audio and video) which speeds up downloads
- Support of MPEG-DASH and Vimeo videos without audio stream
- Various bugfixes
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.2 (Apr 5, 2019)
- Works with firefox 57.0 and later
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.1.25 (Feb 6, 2019)
- Native app installer is now dual-purpose and can be installed machine-wide for all users (ALLUSERS=1)
- Youtube: bugfix quality is not updated when change it in the player
- Youtube: autopreselect of best quality
- Scoring: bugfixes, new MPD segments avoidance rule
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.1.24 (Jan 16, 2019)
- Added support of web browsers UC Browser, Waterfox, Comodo IceDragon
- UI: Popup: added badge over menu button with count of currently running downloads
- UI: Downloads page: increased font size of list of downloads
- HLS protocol: fixed detection bug
- YouTube: advertisement videos are avoided
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.1.19 (Dec 21, 2018)
- Added banners to remind when native app is not installed or requires update
- Updated UI
- Added Clear list feature
- Fixed detection on several web-sites
- Bugfixes
New in Ant Video Downloader 4.0.12 (Nov 21, 2018)
- Popup is back
- New features: Show on disk, Play with default player, linear percentage-based progress
- Scoring videos are downloaded by default with Native app if it is installed
New in Ant Video Downloader 3.3.40 (Apr 11, 2018)
- Ability to choose folder for temporary files (avoid SSD usage)
- Added Reset to default button for both downloads location, temp files location
- Added support of UNC paths (ability to choose removable drives and LAN folders for both downloads/temp files)
- Length of full path to video is limited to 255 chars (extra long names of video are truncated)
- User now cannot choose root of a system drive for downloads/temp files
- Re-engineered download progress reporting for YouTube videos (a bit faster, no delays, added ETA)
- Fixed several bugs
New in Ant Video Downloader 3.2.24 (Feb 28, 2018)
- Implemented protocol MPEG-DASH
- Added feature Cancel downloading
- Added feature Select download location
- Native application installer for Windows and all binaries are now digitally signed to enhance security
- Scoring videos: fixed bugs, fixed ads and previews detection, fixed Cancel button click
- Cleaned up UI in Downloads page
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.41 (May 3, 2016)
- Fixed converter installation issue on some platforms
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.37 (Mar 10, 2016)
- Fixed video detection in Firefox 45
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.36 (Mar 1, 2016)
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.35 (Feb 9, 2016)
- Improved video detection and download
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.32 (Nov 22, 2015)
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.31 (May 15, 2015)
- Improved compatibility with video sites
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.29 (Feb 26, 2015)
- Improved compatibility with Firefox 36
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.28 (Feb 11, 2015)
- Improved the compatibility with the private mode
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.27 (Jan 16, 2015)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the addon to fully start in some rare cases
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.26 (Jul 25, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with top video sites
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.25 (May 17, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with even more sites
- Fixed the invisibility of Ant button if the add-on bar or status bar is disabled
- Fixed file permissions for the default download folder
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.24 (May 17, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with even more sites
- Fixed the invisibility of Ant button if the add-on bar or status bar is disabled
- Fixed file permissions for the default download folder
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.23 (Apr 23, 2014)
- Improved video detection on pages containing many videos;
- Added a simplified media converter installation process;
- Added the ability to reinstall the media converter
- Fixed the "Download folder" being reset when the browser restarts;
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.22 (Mar 29, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with various video hostings
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.16 (Dec 28, 2013)
- Fixed long file names being mangled
- Downloads can now be paused in the download manager
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.15 (Dec 28, 2013)
- Improved the compatibility with Firefox 26
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.11 (Sep 25, 2013)
- Improved compatibility with Private Browsing mode.
- Improved video detection.
- Fixed the problem with video size not being displayed.
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.8 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fix Firefox compatibility issue
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.7 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fixes regression on Download manager with FF 19.0
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.6 (Sep 20, 2013)
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.5 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Support for Firefox 18
- Improved video detection
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.4 (Sep 20, 2013)
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.3 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fixes downloading broken on some configurations
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.2 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Improved video detection
- Rank is now visible in toolbar mode
- Better sizing of WEBM videos in the Player
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7.1 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fixed a bug that shared videos across tabs in the download menu in compact mode
- FLV is back the default download format on youtube
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.7 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fixed issue causing Firefox to crash
- Fixed issue that causes Youtube videos to have the wrong size and not download correctly
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.6.5 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Version without the crash issue that forced Mozilla to block the previous version.
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.6.3 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fixed download memory leak
- Fixed filename issue with '/' in it on some *nix platforms including freeBSD
New in Ant Video Downloader 2.4.6.2 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Ant.com Video Downloader is now compatible with Mozilla Firefox version 10.0;
- Add-on Bar Mode display problem is fixed;
- Introduced minor user interface fixes;
- Solved the 'additional plugin installation' bug;
- When in compact mode, buttons can not be customized like other toolbar buttons;
- Memory leak fixes;
New in Ant Video Downloader 1.1 (Nov 4, 2008)
- Adding Explorer button to open videos folder.
- Adding the AntRank feature to display web site ranking