Useful Programs

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Hertz

Handbrake is free video transcoder.
Handbrake can reduce your video size without quality loss. I use it for three years without any problems. Here's my movie (images below) with 2,40 Gb before, and video after transcoding. It could be up to 90%, but I wanted HD quality.

Handbrake is excellent, and perfect for crunching precisely the kinds of file you have there, something that was ripped at too-high a resolution, producing a file that's too big for the actual visual information it contains. It can also sometimes help with files where the audio track tends to get out of sync when you skip around.

Can be customized in all sorts of ways for particular content and targets. Only downside is that its pretty slow . . .

[solarbear]

I used Handbrake to transfer massive avi files from VHS capture to manageable mp4, those files started out at 30gb for a 2 hour movie and after the transfer, they were around 2gb. I remember the bitrate had a big influence on file size. I think i remember setting it at 1500 for max quality/file size balance. It needs a good quad core (core 2 or athlon II) CPU to work reasonably fast though.

[ortogonale]

TumblThree is a free and open source Tumblr blog backup application, it massively downloads photo and video from a given tumblr blog, even those in "safe mode" (previousy you have to register to tumblr ).

TumblThree (anonymized link)

[lotrecs]

Image host grabber is not compatible with firefox quantum :s what is quantum?

[halvar]

I created a very simple image grabber for firefox quantum using the new webextensions-api.

• The webextensions-api does not allow access to the filesystem. So it is not possible to open a "Save as"-Dialog and save the downloaded images anywhere you like. The files must got to the configured Download-folder or a subfolder of it.
• All image downloads are added to the default Firefox download queue. This means they are visible in the "Show Downloads" dialog. Currently every single image is listed there. Perhaps I will add a zip-file option so that only one download appears.
• This also means that Firefox will ask you where to save for each image if you have Firefox configured to always ask where to save files.
• Currently only imgbox, imagebam, imagevenue, pimpandhost and pixhost are supported.

I recommend open single post view to download images.

How to install
0) download it from here: https://1fichier.com/?bntihkhs0s (new version) (10KB)
1) Open the addon page

2)Install Add-on from file

3) select the file you downloaded

4) confirm permissions. This sounds dangerous, but actually its not. Trust me on this

5) done. It should look like this:



How to use
0) Open the post you want to download
1) Click on the id-icon

2) The popup opens.
It only has two buttons: "Ding!" to start the Download and "Clear Log" to clear the log. The folder name is optional. If supplied a sub-folder with that name is created for the images. If no name is supplied, the current date and time is used for the name.

3) After Click on the Ding! Button log entries appear and the downloads are listed in the download dialog.


4) the images are in a subfolder of 'imgding' in the default download folder
with a specified folder name:

with default folder name:



Attention: Set a default download folder
If you have "Always ask where to save files" activated then Firefox will ask you for every image where to save it. If the post contains 100 images, it will ask a 100 times.


Future Plans
As always, creating a first prototype is fun and challenging, but now comes the boring stuff: fixing errors, improve usability, make a nice ui, etc.
I will gradually improve it, but it will never be as sophisticated as the original IHG.
Drop me a line if you encounter a problem or have any suggestions.

[halvar]

The version 0.0.4 improves the ui a little bit.
Ironically the improved error handling makes things more complicated and more prone to errors.



https://1fichier.com/?bntihkhs0s

Installation and usage is described here.

[hjkkk]

also for downloads from youtube especially playlists try this YouTube playlist downloader

[Coupling]

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but Format Factory is excellent for converting videos/pics as well as reducing the size of video files with very little if any reduction in picture quality.
For example I had a number of classic porn movies DL'ed that were over 1GB in size, converted them to MP4 with Format Factory and the size was reduced by half and practically no loss in quality.

https://formatfactory.en.uptodown.com/windows

[Rommelbommel]

If you are a digital hoarder and spend more time downloading than organizing, I found and recommend these two video duplicate finder for Windows. Similar to image finders, they don't just compare the filesize and filename, but analyze the content (= checking for similar scenes/frames, no matter what resolution).

Video Comparer
https://www.video-comparer.com
Super easy to use, just the amount of options that one needs. Unfortunately the "free" version as advertized on the website is just a trial version. It doesn't display the filenames and paths in the results list, but you can guess the videos from their filesize (open up Explorer and sort by filesize). Full version starts at $20, which is still cheaper than buying a new hard drive just to fill it up with more duplicates.

Video Duplicate Finder
https://github.com/0x90d/videoduplicatefinder
Fully free, absolutely no limitations. Not as good looking and simplistic as Video Comparer, but slightly more options that one doesn't really need.

[Leprechaun]

One of the best Windows tools ever is Freeware now!

https://www.sandboxie.com/

Until the open source transition is completed we have decided to make all restricted features of Sandboxie completely free.