What's new in Portable VideoCacheView 3.09
Jan 22, 2022
- Updated to read the Cache_Data subfolder in the new version of Chrome Web browser.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 3.08 (Nov 26, 2021)
- Updated to work properly with the cache partitioning string on the latest versions of Chrome.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 3.07 (Jun 19, 2021)
- Fixed to extract the URLs correctly from the latest versions of Firefox.
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 3.00 (Sep 28, 2018)
- Added support for the new 'Simple Cache for HTTP' cache format of Chrome Web browser.
New in Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.97 (Nov 21, 2016)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView failed to extract mp4 files with mms links on IE10/IE11.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 2.96 (Apr 14, 2016)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView 32-bit failed to read the cache of IE11 on 64-bit systems.
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.90 (Aug 18, 2015)
- VideoCacheView now detects automatically the temporary flash files of Microsoft Edge/Project Spartan (On Windows 10)
New in Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.87 (Jul 24, 2015)
- Fixed to work with the latest build of Windows 10
New in Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.85 (Apr 27, 2015)
- Added option to scan only files from the last xx hours.
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.76 (Oct 9, 2014)
- VideoCacheView now automatically locates the temporary pepper flash folders of all Chrome and Chrome Canary profiles.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 2.75 (Sep 9, 2014)
- Added support for the new cache structure of Firefox 32.
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.67 (May 2, 2014)
- Fixed the 'Automatic File Size Refresh' problem on Windows 7/8.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 2.66 (Mar 15, 2014)
- Fixed a crash problem occurred when trying to load the cache of IE10.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 2.65 (Nov 7, 2013)
- Fixed VideoCacheView to detect YouTube videos from googlevideo.com domain
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.51 (Jul 22, 2013)
- Fixed bug: VideoCacheView failed to detect some of the video files on IE10
New in Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.46 (May 27, 2013)
- Added option to choose the file size display unit: Bytes, KB, or MB
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.38 (Oct 25, 2012)
- Fixed issue: On some systems, VideoCacheView saved .mp4 files without a file extension
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.35 (Aug 27, 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.32 (Jul 10, 2012)
- Added x64 build, which allows you to extract temporary flash files from 64-bit Web browsers.
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.26 (Jun 27, 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.25 (Jun 27, 2012)
- VideoCacheView now can detect the flash temporary files of any Web browser installed on your system automatically.
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.20 (May 16, 2012)
- Added support for the split 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 split by YouTube Web site, and displays every chunk of split files as a single record.
- The new 'split Files Count' column displays the number of split files that the displayed record represents.
- When you use the 'Copy Selected Files To...' option, VideoCacheView automatically merges all split 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 split video files, all split files are deleted at once.
New in Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.15 (Mar 28, 2012)
- Added option to display only files larger than the specified size (In 'Advanced Options' window)
New in Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.05 (Jan 23, 2012)
- Added 'Mark Non-Cached Files' option.
New in Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 2.01 (Oct 20, 2011)
- Fixed a problem with temporary flv files of Safari Web browser.
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable VideoCacheView 1.97 (Aug 8, 2011)
- Fixed bug: The 'Open VideoCacheView' menu item of the tray icon didn't work.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 1.96 (Aug 3, 2011)
- Fixed the column labels on the 'Choose Process' window.
- Added 2 accelerator keys.
New in Portable VideoCacheView 1.95 (Jul 18, 2011)
- Added 'Put Icon On Tray' option.
New in Portable 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.