Vixy YouTube Downloader \ Converter (www.vixy.net)
Vixy YouTube Downloader is popular YouTube downloader, because it is free and does not require installation on local PC. From the other side Vixy.net is always very slow when a lot of people are trying to use it, because it is server based application. It supports only downloading from YouTube and direct link to the FLV file, you can choose only from few video formats, and there are no converting options such as video frame size, bitrate, frame rate, etc.
Best Vixy Alternative
Try VideoGet as Vixy alternative.
With VideoGet you can simply download YouTube videos and from more than 600+ other video websites.
It supports such websites as YouTube,
MySpace,
Google Video,
Yahoo Video,
MetaCafe and a lot more.
Most of these video websites store video in the FLV format.
VideoGet provides you with ability to convert each video into most popular formats for more comfortable video playback.
VideoGet supports
AVI,
MPEG1,
MPEG2,
WMV,
FLV,
MP4,
3GP,
MP3
file formats, so you will be able not only to view it, but
also put it into your
iPod Video,
iPhone,
Zune,
PSP,
mobile phones or any other portable device.
Furthermore you can customize video/audio quality, video frame rate, width / height and audio sampling rate.
Key features
- Downloads video from YouTube and other 600+ video websites. Click here to see full list of supported websites
- Converts video to variety of video formats (*.AVI, *.MPG, *.WMV, *.FLV, *.MP4, *.3GP, *.RM, *.MOV, *.MP3, *.WAV)
- Converts video to any portable video device (iPhone, iPod Video, iPod Nano, iPod Touch, PSP, Zune, iRiver Clix, AppleTV)
- One-click-download-convert. Plugins for Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox browser
- Script auto-updater allows you to be always in touch with latest version
- Download works through WinInet API, which is used by Internet Explorer, allows easy and fast download of Flash movies
- Allows to download in batch mode with ability to save / load batch
- Allows to pause / resume download process
- Can resume broken download instead of downloading file from the beginning
- Ability to login on YouTube due to inappropriate videos for which we need to prove we are 18+ years old
- Automatically detects which online video service you are attempting to download from
- Ability to setup width / height, video / audio quality, video frame rate and audio sampling rate of encoded video
- Small and compact
- Designed with "Easy-to-Use" concept in mind, extremely easy to use
- Works on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Works with all types of Internet connection
- Supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian
Vixy (www.vixy.net) is down or not working
VideoGet is client-side application, it doesn't matter how many people using VideoGet right now, instead of Vixy which is server-side.
Vixy (www.vixy.net) is slow
You will never have such problem with VideoGet, it is client-side application, and Vixy is server-based, and its speed is proportional to the count of people using it at the moment, that's why it is slow
Vixy No Sound
If you are having problems with playback downloaded video, please check this article: If you have problems with playback downloaded YouTube video