ViDown is application for downloading and converting videos from popular bulgarian videosharing websites (currently supporting mp3.bg, vbox7.com, boozho.com, clipovete.com, bgvip.tv and youtube.com) written in wxPython and using the power of ffmpeg, curl for conveting and downloading.
ViDown is a simple python application for downloading videos from boozho.com, vbox7.com, clipovete.com, bgvip.tv, mp3.bg and youtube.com. ViDown checks the url and reads the information about the video. The information is later used for naming the files and setting id3 tags if you choose to download the video as mp3. For converting the videos in avi or mp3 is used ffmpeg.
For the audio track is used the lame encoder.
To be able to use this application you need to have installed:
- ffmpeg (compiled with libmp3lame)
- curl – for downloading the videos
- xterm – for displaying the information about downloding and converting
- python 2.5
- wxPython 2.8 (unicode)
- BeautifulSoup - for parsing the webpages (included in the package)
- ConfigObj - for parsing the configuration file
- gettext - used for translating the interface
- python-eyed3 - for updating the ID 3 tags in mp3 files
News
Youtube support will be back in next version (16/01/2010 13:38)
I figuered it out. Now I need some time to implement it in the next version. So be patient it wouldn't take too long to make the changes. Also there will be a .deb package for the next release. The support for mp3.bg will be also changes, since mp3.bg changed their domain name to mp3.dnes.bg vK
Youtube support crashed (07/11/2009 12:50)
Unfortunately the support for youtube videos is crashed, since youtube have changed the way they show the videos. However there will be fix in the upcoming version, so stay tuned.
Damn Spammers (23/10/2009 00:20)
I have to appologize, but the vidown website was attacked by spammers. I just can say - idiots, although I didn't secured the website pretty well it's stupid to delete all the content to promote bullshits. So I'm sorry for all of you, who wanted to visit the website and get more information about the Vi Down application. Now everything is back to normal and the content is recovered.
Expect soon, a new version. The problem not releasing the promissed 3.0 is that I just have no time. There are some other payed projects that I have to finish, and the I'll come back to Vi Down and my other applications. For now - if you find any bugs, or have suggestions - please visit the launchpad page and report there.
ViDown 0.2.5 released and published in softpedia (16/06/2009 10:36)
First of I never expected that the application will be published in Softpedia, but well this is somewhat a motivation to continue developing and extending the application. So I decided to publish the 0.2.5 release for download as a single package, so the users can download videos from youtube too. I plan some more sites for the 0.3 release and also to complete the classes separations in own files. I'm thinking of some kind a plug-in-like support, where it will be easy to add support for other sites, although it's relative easy, because you need to add 2x elif for the get_info and on_download and then define two methods on for reading the website and one for downloading the video.
Check the Download page to get the latest version.
ViDown version 0.2.5 (16/07/2009 10:36)
Support for youtube.com and bgvip.tv was added. The dialogs classes were moved to a separate file. Some more to do about the separating the methods for downloading, but for the releasing the versio 0.2.5 as a tarball it will be done. Now you can download the latest version from launchpad using the following command: bzr branch lp:vidown
Please report any bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/vidown
Preparing ViDown for version 0.3 (16/07/2009 10:36)
I see that if I want that this application to be more interesting for other programmers I should do it right, so I started separating the classes in files. So now the About and Preferences dialogs are in MyDialogs.py next thing to do is to separate the methods for downloading. I added support for bgvip.tv and added some comments. I plan for version 0.3 to add a installer script witch will install vidown to your system and add it to the menus. It's a little bit more work, and perhaps I will release version 0.2.5 with support for youtube, but I will have to look at some already done work like youtube-dl, but I'm still looking for something more simple, since youtube-dl has many features, for witch I'll have to extend the preferences dialog and I would like to keep vidown as simple as possible, because personally I hate too much options in the applications and vidown needs just to work. I will post more about the progress later
Best regards
Version 0.2.3 released (15/07/2009 16:52)
Made the Main Window bigger, so the buttons fit when using stock buttons for other translations. Added option to change the width and height of the video, when converting it to avi. Now ViDown detects the default localization on the system and selects the translation, works when Select Language is set to Default in the Preferences Dialog . Translations are not updated for the new option in the Preferences Dialog
Download
- Binaries: vidown_0.2.3.tar.bz2 (151K)
MD5Checksum: vidown_0.2.3.tar.bz2.md5GPG: vidown_0.2.3.tar.bz2.asc
Version 0.2.1 released (15/07/2009 11:22)
The version 0.2.1 was released. I have added the support for clipovete.com and cleaned up some small problems with the old version. The option to choose a default player for previewing the downloaded video was also added, so now you can specify witch player you would like to use. You just have to insert the command for starting the player. I was thinking of adding a combo-box for selecting from a list of players, but in the next moment I found that this is not such a good idea. I get a report from stancho (Stanko Metodiev) about a problem with the GUI when using ViDown in localized desktop, but as this is not a such drama, I will edit this in the next version after adding support for one or two more websites.
Working on clipovete.com support (15/07/2009 00:34)
Since in version 0.2 most of the annoying bugs were cleared, I've started adding support for other video sharing websites. Just about 5 minutes ago I added the support for clipovete.com, But I have to make some more tests and perhaps in the next one or two days I will push the version to 0.2.1. In this version I will extend the Preferences dialog, because I found it not so cool clean to use only ffplay for playing a preview:
- Select default video player
- Select default audio player
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