My second review of an Android application, this time thanks to great community of XDA
User Rolle3k has develop a ripper for youtube that I had the honor of try today.
The concept is quite simple. After instalation do the following
- You browse youtube with the built-in application and choose the video you want to view and download after;
- press menu and chose the “share” option;
- from the multiple options presented, choose youtube ripper;
- there will be a text box saying the web adress of the video you’re about to rip, ignore it;
- press “rip it” wait a little bit (depends on wi-fi/3G speed) and it’s done.
Please note: do not turn your screen or the download we’ll stop. Hope the dev solves this, since it’s only a beta release.
The program saves the files as .mp4 on a folder called “youtube” on your sd card. It’s quite fast, took 12seconds to rip a 2Mb file on my wi-fi and 32seconds on my 3G network.
Tested on a MyTouch 3G 32B, stock Donut 1.6
Originality: 6/10 – there are more apk that attempt to do this
functionality: 8/10 if we could choose the target folder and file name it would be 10/10
usefullness: 10/10 sometimes I see this great video on my android and want to save it, this does the job 🙂
General: 7/10 it’s still a Beta so a lot of work is on the way, but it’s my conviction that Rolle3k will succeed
Bottom line:
It’s a great application and we can only hope to see more of it in the future. I suggest everyone to install it and give it a try. And the price is also good – it’s free, but don’t forget, people have to eat so press the adds and donate if you feel the application is really good.
News p
age about the application on xda
p.s. sorry for not posting any screenshot but since I’m running on a stock rom I can’t take any (hope google solves it in the near future)