September 11th, 2017 by Daniel Woida
Video DownloadHelper is an extension for the Firefox web browser, but since 2015 Video DownloadHelper also released a Chrome version. Both Firefox and Chrome versions allow users to download web videos. But the Chrome version has an obvious limitation: it can not download YouTube videos. What is worse, both Firefox users and Chrome users have reported many ' Video DownloadHelper not working ' problems in Video DownloadHelper Forums. See some examples below:
When users encounter ' Video DownloadHelper not working ' problems, like the above ones, they must be frustrated. I think the above problems are not easy and fast to be solved. Compared with waiting for the ' Video DownloadHelper not working ' problem solved, we can easily use a Video DownloadHelper alternative, like Allavsoft, to help us to download videos.
The following guide applies to download any video for audio from the supported websites.
Free download the professional Video DownloadHelper Alternative for Mac or Windows version - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.
Open YouTube website. Browse YouTube categories or search to find the YouTube video that you love to download. And then get this YouTube video URL to Allavsoft either by dragging and dropping or by copying and pasting.
Allavsoft has set YouTube original video format as the output format. But other video formats are also easily available to save as the output format and you only need to click the "Automatically Convert to" button to select your needed output format.
Click "Download" button to complete downloading YouTube video.