What's new in VideoCacheView 3.09
Jan 22, 2022
- Updated to read the Cache_Data subfolder in the new version of Chrome Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 3.08 (Nov 26, 2021)
- Updated to work properly with the cache partitioning string on the latest versions of Chrome.
New in VideoCacheView 3.07 (Jun 19, 2021)
- Fixed to extract the URLs correctly from the latest versions of Firefox.
New in VideoCacheView 3.06 (Mar 1, 2021)
- Updated to work properly with the new cache partitioning of Chrome. (In previous versions, URL was displayed with _dk_ prefix).
New in VideoCacheView 3.05 (Mar 27, 2019)
- Added 'Manually Merge Selected Files' option (Ctrl+M). If you have split video files that VideoCacheView cannot detect and merge automatically, you can select all items, press Ctrl+M and then VideoCacheView will merge all selected items into one.
- After using the 'Manually Merge Selected Files' option, you can use the 'Copy Selected Files To...' option to generate the merged file. Be aware that the order of the merged files is determined according to the created time of every file.
New in VideoCacheView 3.00 (Sep 28, 2018)
- Added support for the new 'Simple Cache for HTTP' cache format of Chrome Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 2.98 (Nov 27, 2017)
- Fixed to detect and merge the current video links of YouTube. Also, fixed a bug that caused VideoCacheView to include text or xml file related to the video stream inside the merged file, causing the merged file to be corrupted.
- See the 'YouTube Videos' section for more information about working with YouTube files.
New in VideoCacheView 2.97 (Nov 21, 2016)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView failed to extract mp4 files with mms links on IE10/IE11.
New in VideoCacheView 2.96 (Apr 14, 2016)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView 32-bit failed to read the cache of IE11 on 64-bit systems.
New in VideoCacheView 2.95 (Dec 10, 2015)
- VideoCacheView now automatically detects the cache folder and temporary files of Yandex Web browser. (Be aware that Yandex is based on Chrome Web browser, so 'Chrome' is displayed in the browser column)
New in VideoCacheView 2.91 (Oct 18, 2015)
- When using the 'Open Selected File With', the 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' check-box is now turned off and disabled.
New in VideoCacheView 2.90 (Aug 18, 2015)
- VideoCacheView now detects automatically the temporary flash files of Microsoft Edge/Project Spartan (On Windows 10)
New in VideoCacheView 2.88 (Jul 24, 2015)
- When GPAC fails to merge video and audio files into one, VideoCacheView now displays an error message.
New in VideoCacheView 2.87 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Fixed to work with the latest build of Windows 10.
New in VideoCacheView 2.86 (Jun 1, 2015)
- Fixed issue: On some systems, VideoCacheView failed to read the cache of IE10/IE11 from WebCacheV01.dat
New in VideoCacheView 2.85 (Apr 27, 2015)
- Added option to scan only files from the last xx hours.
New in VideoCacheView 2.82 (Mar 16, 2015)
- Fixed VideoCacheView to detect the files inside Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash folder when specifying it as temporary folder in the 'Advanced Options' window.
New in VideoCacheView 2.81 (Mar 4, 2015)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView failed to retrieve some of the long URLs of Chrome Web browser (and without the URLs, VideoCacheView also failed to merge split video files).
New in VideoCacheView 2.80 (Jan 12, 2015)
- VideoCacheView now automatically detects and loads the cache of Opera 15 or later (Stored under C:\Users\[User Profile]\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Cache). Be aware that Opera is now based on Chrome Web browser, and thus VideoCacheView detects the cache files of Opera as Chrome...
New in VideoCacheView 2.77 (Oct 29, 2014)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it's not located in the primary monitor.
New in VideoCacheView 2.76 (Oct 9, 2014)
- VideoCacheView now automatically locates the temporary pepper flash folders of all Chrome and Chrome Canary profiles.
New in VideoCacheView 2.75 (Sep 9, 2014)
- Added support for the new cache structure of Firefox 32.
New in VideoCacheView 2.70 (Aug 21, 2014)
- VideoCacheView now automatically reads the cache of all profiles of Chrome and Firefox Web browsers
- VideoCacheView now automatically detects the cache of Chrome Canary and SeaMonkey Web browsers
- VideoCacheView now automatically reads the 'Media Cache' folder of Chrome Web browsers
- VideoCacheView now automatically reads the temporary files stored under mozilla-temp-files folder
New in VideoCacheView 2.68 (Jul 15, 2014)
- Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you should not hold down the Shift key.
New in VideoCacheView 2.67 (May 2, 2014)
- Fixed the 'Automatic File Size Refresh' problem on Windows 7/8.
New in VideoCacheView 2.66 (Mar 14, 2014)
- Fixed a crash problem occurred when trying to load the cache of IE10
New in VideoCacheView 2.65 (Nov 7, 2013)
- Fixed VideoCacheView to detect YouTube videos from googlevideo.com domain
New in VideoCacheView 2.63 (Nov 4, 2013)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView added YouTube split files with zero file-size, which sometimes caused the generated merged file to be corrupted.
New in VideoCacheView 2.62 (Oct 3, 2013)
- Added /cfg command-line option, which instructs VideoCacheView to use a config file in another location instead if the default config file, for example: VideoCacheView.exe /cfg "%AppData%\VideoCacheView.cfg"
New in VideoCacheView 2.61 (Sep 22, 2013)
- For YouTube videos, VideoCacheView now displays your IP address at the time that you watched the video (The IP address is extracted from the URL)
New in VideoCacheView 2.60 (Sep 4, 2013)
- Added support for saving the new MPEG-DASH streams of YouTube as MP4 file that can be played on any media player. Requires to install additional open-source software: GPAC. VideoCacheView uses the MP4Box utility installed as a part of GPAC package to convert the MPEG-DASH streams into a valid mp4 file that can be played with any media player. Special thanks to one of NirSoft users who gave me the hint for solving the problem with MPEG-DASH streams.
- Fixed bug with the cache of Internet Explorer (6.0 - 9.0): VideoCacheView failed to detect a small portion of the cache entries.
- Fixed VideoCacheView 32-bit to work with IE10 on 64-bit systems.
New in VideoCacheView 2.55 (Aug 21, 2013)
- Added option to save and load the entire configuration of VideoCacheView ('Save Configuration' and 'Load Configuration' under the File menu).
New in VideoCacheView 2.52 (Jul 29, 2013)
- Fixed issue with Chrome Web browser: VideoCacheView loaded only 4 data files: data_0, data_1, data_2, data_3. It seems that when the cache of Chrome is large enough, it starts to create more cache data files (data_4, data_5...). Starting from this version, VideoCacheView will read these additional cache data files.
- Added support for merging the new MPEG-DASH streams of YouTube into one file. Unfortunately, this feature is currently useless, because I cannot find any video player that can actually play this kind of files...
New in VideoCacheView 2.51 (Jul 22, 2013)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView failed to detect some of the video files on IE10
New in VideoCacheView 2.50 (Jun 21, 2013)
- Added limited support for Internet Explorer 10... and there are some problems with it:
- Many videos are not saved properly in the cache by IE10, and thus VideoCacheView will not be able to extract them.
- In order to ensure that all cache data of IE10 is saved to the disk, it's highly recommended to log off and then log on again, before using VideoCacheView with IE10. If you don't do that, VideoCacheView may hang or crash...
- By default, IE10 feature is turned off. In order to start using it, go to 'Advanced Options' window (F6) and check the 'Internet Explorer 10 Cache' option.
New in VideoCacheView 2.46 (May 27, 2013)
- Added option to choose the file size display unit: Bytes, KB, or MB
New in VideoCacheView 2.45 (Dec 17, 2012)
- Added support for split video files of dailymotion.com
- Be aware that the merged .flv file created from dailymotion.com is not played properly by some FLV players. In order to play this kind of file, you can try to use the latest version of VLC Media Player. VLC Media Player has the ability to play the entire merged .flv file, though it initially detects only the first fragment.
New in VideoCacheView 2.40 (Nov 28, 2012)
- Added 'Use the Web page title as filename' option in the Copy Video Files dialog-box. If this option is turned on, VideoCacheView will use the Web page title (As appears under the 'Title' column) to generate the video filename.
New in VideoCacheView 2.38 (Oct 25, 2012)
- Fixed issue: On some systems, VideoCacheView saved .mp4 files without a file extension
New in VideoCacheView 2.37 (Oct 4, 2012)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView crashed on some systems while reading the cache files of Firefox.
- Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers.
- Fixed issue: Dialog-boxes opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
New in VideoCacheView 2.36 (Aug 27, 2012)
- The string of the Title column is now automatically copied to the file description in the 'Copy Video Files' window.
New in VideoCacheView 2.35 (Aug 6, 2012)
- Added support for the new location of the Flash temporary files on Chrome Web browser (Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash)
New in VideoCacheView 2.32 (Jul 10, 2012)
- Added x64 build, which allows you to extract temporary flash files from 64-bit Web browsers.
New in VideoCacheView 2.31 (Jul 2, 2012)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView failed to detect the temporary flash files if the system had large amount of running processes.
New in VideoCacheView 2.30 (Jun 27, 2012)
- Added 'Title' column, which displays the title of the Web page that was loaded while playing the video/audio file. (Be aware that this feature is not perfect, and it may not work properly with some Web sites)
New in VideoCacheView 2.26 (Jun 12, 2012)
- Update for Firefox 13.x with Flash version 11.3.300.257: The temporary flash files are now also taken from acro_rd_dir subfolder under the main temp folder, as well as VideoCacheView can detect the executable file of Flash
New in VideoCacheView 2.25 (Jun 11, 2012)
- VideoCacheView now can detect the flash temporary files of any Web browser installed on your system automatically.
New in VideoCacheView 2.22 (May 25, 2012)
- Fixed bug with split video feature: When switching to another video resolution, VideoCacheView merged the split video of the original resolution with the full video file of the new resolution.
New in VideoCacheView 2.21 (May 23, 2012)
- VideoCacheView now also reads the turbo subfolder located under the main cache folder of Opera Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 2.20 (May 7, 2012)
- Added support for the splitted video files of YouTube Web site. After the scanning and loading process of the video files list is finished, VideoCacheView automatically detects the .flv video files splitted by YouTube Web site, and displays every chunk of splitted files as a single record.
- The new 'Splitted Files Count' column displays the number of splitted files that the displayed record represents.
- When you use the 'Copy Selected Files To...' option, VideoCacheView automatically merges all splitted files into one .flv that can be played in .flv player. The files are merged in the order of the created date/time of every file.
- When you choose to delete a record containing splitted video files, all splitted files are deleted at once.
New in VideoCacheView 2.16 (Apr 17, 2012)
- Fixed VideoCacheView to detect the correct cache folder of Firefox if the user changed it from Firefox config (browser.cache.disk.parent_directory).
New in VideoCacheView 2.15 (Mar 28, 2012)
- Added option to display only files larger than the specified size (In 'Advanced Options' window)
New in VideoCacheView 2.10 (Jan 23, 2012)
- Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of VideoCacheView will be invisible on start.
New in VideoCacheView 2.05 (Jan 23, 2012)
- Added 'Mark Non-Cached Files' option.
New in VideoCacheView 2.02 (Nov 9, 2011)
- Fixed bug: while scanning, non-cached video files displayed on the main window, even if 'Show Non-Cached Files' option was turned off.
New in VideoCacheView 2.01 (Oct 20, 2011)
- Fixed a problem with temporary flv files of Safari Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 2.00 (Oct 20, 2011)
- Added 'Explorer Copy' option, which allows you to copy the video filename to the clipboard and then paste it into a folder of Windows Explorer. Be aware that this feature doesn't work properly with temporary .flv files, because Windows Explorer cannot copy locked files.
- You can also drag a video file from VideoCacheView into a folder of Windows Explorer or any other software that supports drag & drop of files.
New in VideoCacheView 1.98 (Aug 26, 2011)
- Fixed bug: When using invalid filename characters on the 'File description to generate the filename' field, the copy video files action was failed. Invalid filename characters are now replaced with '-' character.
New in VideoCacheView 1.97 (Aug 8, 2011)
- Fixed bug: The 'Open VideoCacheView' menu item of the tray icon didn't work.
New in VideoCacheView 1.96 (Aug 3, 2011)
- Fixed the column labels on the 'Choose Process' window.
- Added 2 accelerator keys.
New in VideoCacheView 1.95 (Jul 18, 2011)
- Added 'Put Icon On Tray' option.
New in VideoCacheView 1.94 (Jun 22, 2011)
- The title of the top web browser window is now automatically copied as the default filename in the 'Copy Video Files To...' window.
New in VideoCacheView 1.93 (Jun 2, 2011)
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.
New in VideoCacheView 1.92 (May 3, 2011)
- VideoCacheView now displays the copied filename in the bottom status bar, when using the 'Copy Video Files To...' option.
New in VideoCacheView 1.91 (Apr 21, 2011)
- The 'Copy Video Files To...' window now allows you specify a description text for the video file. This description text will be used to create a good readable filename, instead of creating meaningless filename, like 'flaCC69.flv'. For example: If you specify 'Great YouTube Video' as the description text, the video filename will be Great YouTube Video.flv
- If this filename already exists and 'Copy as new name if filename already exists' option is checked, a counter will be added to the filename (For example: 'Great YouTube Video 1.flv', 'Great YouTube Video 2.flv', and so on)
New in VideoCacheView 1.90 (Apr 15, 2011)
- Added 'Create NTFS hard link instead of copying the file' in the Copy Video Files To window. This feature is very useful for flash temporary files. As opposed to standard file copy, you can use this option even when the video file is not completely downloaded. After you close the window that played the temporary Flash file, the created hard link will contain a valid .flv file.
- Be aware that you can create NTFS hard links only on the same disk volume of Windows.
New in VideoCacheView 1.87 (Mar 21, 2011)
- On Windows Vista/7/2008: The cache of Internet Explorer is now loaded from both the base cache folder and the 'Low' subfolder. (In the previous versions, only one of them was loaded, according to the last modified date/time of the index.dat file)
New in VideoCacheView 1.86 (Feb 11, 2011)
- Added 'Copy Filenames List' option.
New in VideoCacheView 1.85 (Feb 2, 2011)
- Fixed to work properly with the cache of Firefox 4 Beta
New in VideoCacheView 1.84 (Jan 17, 2011)
- Fixed VideoCacheView to read the cache of Chrome Web browser even when it's opened and locks the cache files.
- Added option to use the 'Open With' feature on double-click. (In 'Advanced Options' window)
New in VideoCacheView 1.83 (Dec 27, 2010)
- The status bar now displays the total size of selected files in KB/MB. (Only existing files are accumulated)
New in VideoCacheView 1.82 (Dec 8, 2010)
- Added 'Open Selected File With' option, which allows you to play/open a video file with another application, instead of the default one.
New in VideoCacheView 1.81 (Oct 25, 2010)
- When you close a Web page with temporary flash video file, VideoCacheView now automatically removes the deleted temporary file, without the need to refresh the entire list (This change only works when 'Automatic File Size Refresh' is turned on).
New in VideoCacheView 1.80 (Oct 8, 2010)
- Fixed issue: VideoCacheView failed to detect .mp4 files if the server sent wrong content-type, like text/plain.
New in VideoCacheView 1.78 (Sep 20, 2010)
- VideoCacheView now allows you to choose what to do when you double-click on a video item - Show properties, play, or open URL in Web browser. (In 'Advanced Options' window)
New in VideoCacheView 1.77 (Sep 12, 2010)
- Fixed issue: When there was an opened Web page with a Java applet, VideoCacheView stopped responding (hang), without even the ability to kill the process. VideoCacheView was released properly only after closing the Web browser page containing the Java applet.
New in VideoCacheView 1.76 (Sep 2, 2010)
- Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
New in VideoCacheView 1.75 (Jul 26, 2010)
- Added 'Automatic File Size Refresh' option. When this option is turned on, the file size of temporary .flv files is automatically refreshed, so you can easily watch the progress of the .flv download by the Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 1.72 (Jul 5, 2010)
- Fixed bug: For some Web sites, the 'Content Type' value displayed for Firefox Web browser was incorrect.
New in VideoCacheView 1.71 (Jun 24, 2010)
- Fixed the problem with Firefox 3.6.4: Starting from this version of Firefox, the flash component is hosted is a separated .exe file (plugin-container.exe) instead of Firefox.exe, and that caused VideoCacheView to stop working with the temporary .flv files created by Firefox. This version of VideoCacheView fix the problem.
New in VideoCacheView 1.70 (Jun 17, 2010)
- Added 'Open File Folder' option.
- The video cache files are now listed during the cache scan process, instead of displaying them only when the scan process is finished.
New in VideoCacheView 1.65 (Jun 7, 2010)
- Added more command-line options to control which video items are displayed.
New in VideoCacheView 1.61 (May 6, 2010)
- Fixed bug: in some rare cases, VideoCacheView failed to locate the video files in the Temporary Folder.
New in VideoCacheView 1.60 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Added 'Stop' button to allow you to stop the video files scanning.
New in VideoCacheView 1.57 (Mar 22, 2010)
- Fixed a problem with crash/exception when reading the cache of Chrome Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 1.56 (Mar 5, 2010)
- Fixed VideoCacheView to work with the cache index file of Opera 10.50
New in VideoCacheView 1.55 (Mar 2, 2010)
- Added 'Show Advanced Options Before First Load' under the Options menu. When this options is selected, you'll be able to choose the Web browsers that you want to use before the video list is loaded in the first time after you run VideoCacheView.
New in VideoCacheView 1.53 (Dec 15, 2009)
- Improved the performances of scanning the cache of Internet Explorer.
New in VideoCacheView 1.52 (Oct 5, 2009)
- Added sorting command-line options.
- Fixed VideoCacheView to automatically detect the cache folder of Opera 10.
New in VideoCacheView 1.51 (Sep 7, 2009)
- Added support for image files. Although this utility was created for extracting video files, some users requested to add image files. This options is disabled by default, because the cache may contains a lots of images.
- Fixed bug: In rare case, VideoCacheView crashed immediately after running it.
- Changed the 'Save Selected Items' option to 'Export Selected Items', because the word 'Save' confuse many users which think that this option save the video files themselves , while the real option that do this is 'Copy Selected Files To'.
New in VideoCacheView 1.50 (Jul 18, 2009)
- Added new option (In Advanced Options): Scan also the Temporary Folder for the following Web browsers. Allows you to get the flash files in Temporary Folder of other Web browsers that are not supported by VideoCacheView. Simply add the .exe filename of the browser, and VideoCacheView will grab its Temporary Folder flash files too
New in VideoCacheView 1.45 (Apr 21, 2009)
- Added /copyalltemp command-line option - Copy all .flv (Flash) video files currently stored in the temporary folder. This option is very useful if you have some opened browser windows with video from YouTube, Metacafe, or others, and you want to save these video files into the desired folder, without displaying any user interface.
- Added /copymms command-line option - Convert .dat file of MMS stream into .wmv file.
- Fixed bug: Under Windows Vista/Windows 7 - In some circumstances, VideoCacheView didn't display all video files in the cache.
- Fixed bug: Under Windows 7, VideoCacheView failed to display video files stored in temporary folder. (Be aware that even after fixing the bug, you still have to run VideoCacheView as admin in order to view the files in temporary folder)
- When installing VideoCacheView with the installer (VideoCacheView_setup.exe) - "Save All Opened Flash Videos" shortcut is added.
New in VideoCacheView 1.43 (Apr 14, 2009)
- VideoCacheView now also allows you to play .flv files from the temporary folder
New in VideoCacheView 1.42 (Mar 3, 2009)
- Added support for .SWF files (By default, this option is not enabled, because the cache may contains a lots of .SWF files, most of them are advertising)
New in VideoCacheView 1.41 (Feb 16, 2009)
- Added support for working with the cache files of Google Chrome 2.x
New in VideoCacheView 1.40 (Jan 19, 2009)
- Added support for audio files. (useful for music/songs/ringtones Web sites)
New in VideoCacheView 1.36 (Dec 19, 2008)
- Added 'Hide Missing Cache Files' option.
- Fixed bug: In some systems, MozillaCacheView didn't display all cache files
New in VideoCacheView 1.35 (Dec 8, 2008)
- Temporary Folder - If there is more than one temp folder (For example: c: emp and F:Documents and SettingsAdministratorLocal SettingsTemp), VideoCacheView will now scan both of them. Fixed issues with long/short filenames with Temporary Folder. In 'Advanced Options' - Added an option to choose another temp folder. Fixed the focus issue after closing the Copy dialog-box.
New in VideoCacheView 1.30 (Nov 27, 2008)
- Added 'Load video files from...' in 'Advanced Options'. (Filter by Browser types/temporary folder)
New in VideoCacheView 1.25 (Oct 11, 2008)
- Added support for the cache of Chrome Web browser
New in VideoCacheView 1.21 (Sep 20, 2008)
- Added support for temporary flv files of Safari Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 1.20 (Sep 9, 2008)
- Added support for video files stored in the cache of Opera Web browser.
- Added support for temporary flv files of Google Chrome Web browser.
New in VideoCacheView 1.15 (Aug 25, 2008)
- Added support for mms streams stored in IE cache.
New in VideoCacheView 1.11 (Aug 16, 2008)
- Added AutoComplete to filename/folder text-boxes.
- Dilog-boxes are now resizable.
New in VideoCacheView 1.09 (May 30, 2008)
- The URLs in HTML report are now created as links
New in VideoCacheView 1.08 (May 5, 2008)
- Added support for saving as comma-delimited text file.
- Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to VideoCacheView
New in VideoCacheView 1.07 (Mar 6, 2008)
- Fixed bug: The browse folder button failed to work in the copy dialog-box
New in VideoCacheView 1.07 (Mar 6, 2008)
- Fixed bug: The browse folder button failed to work in the copy dialog-box.
New in VideoCacheView 1.06 (Feb 27, 2008)
- Added 'Advanced Options' that allows you to select another cache folder for Firefox.
New in VideoCacheView 1.05 (Dec 27, 2007)
- Added new option: 'Delete Selected Cache Files'.
- Added new option:'Copy as new name if filename already exists'.
- Fixed emtry filenames bug.
- Added automatic filename extension according to the content-type
New in VideoCacheView 1.02 (Nov 26, 2007)
- Another fix for Vista with User Account Control