Nobody, This giveaway version limit update. If you are our paid users, your license works on any version of our Allavsoft including the giveaway version.

bosco,

(*sigh*... again...)

If you managed to download the ZIP file, open the ZIP file, saw the file SETUP.EXE, copied the file SETUP.EXE somewhere else (say, the Desktop), then ran the file SETUP.EXE to install the Allavsoft software, then ran the Allavsoft software, then saw the box for "License Name" and "License Code"...

... then you're nearly done.

In the "Christmas Morning" excitement of ripping open boxes with new presents, it's understandable to overlook the cards attached on the outside with the thoughtful messages within. Sometimes they contain things more valuable than what's in the boxes. If only...

Likewise, when you first opened the ZIP file, there was only one other file named README.TXT .

Had you chosen to first read that file before proceeding with the installation, you would have seen the almighty activation code to use. Since no "name" was provided by README.TXT, use your own name, a fake name, "GiveawayOfTheDay" (worked fine for me), whatever.

Hope this helps.

bosco, Name is whatever you want. The license code is in the "ReadMe" file...

bosco, Didn't you read the text file first? It clearly states to use your name to register with the code given.

Peter Ainsworth, We are so sorry that currently we no longer support extension, which does not affect the download and convert function.
You may copy and paste the video, music url, playlist to Allavsoft

We will add it again in future.

OK, so I guess the Chrome extension got installed, but can not be activated because "it didn't come from the Chrome Extension Store". So essentially all browser extensions this software provides are completely worthless...

FeMaster, Not all videos are available in every resolution. When it is, for youtube, Clipgrab which is free/donation gives you a pulldown of resolutions such as for this video example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQuhA5ZCV9M it said 1080, 720, 480, 360 as choices to download.
In allavsoft it likely would be best, normal, worst which might be 1080, 480, 360 try it, that is a good feature suggestion for allavsoft since there may be other resolutions and on many sites being able to choose the one you want after getting the info from the video site.

DataDragon, Yes, it would certainly make for a good feature to be able to select resolutions. The software must do some sort of checking otherwise you wouldn't be able to select at all. Perhaps the software could check the link first, then show the user what is available and prompt for quality selection. Either that or allow for the ability to select a resolution like you can now, and if that resolution is not available, then prompt the user with those that are.

FeMaster, .......videos are available in every resolution...en size....richt! With Frostwire to use, you see what is available. But, if there are not enough seeders, you have nothing to do with it. Then it takes a long time before you get the video of the desired size!
For example: Doctor Zhivago (1965) 1920x1080 acc dts ac3-mkv, size: 26.777.210 kB, 3u20". For that video, you can count on several hours for downloading that movie.

FeMaster, If you do not check before automatically convert to, it will download the original source file.
If you prefer other video quality, you may try iDealshare VideoGo with this guide https://www.idealshare.net/video-converter/change-video-resolution.html

David, without redesigning the Download Quality GUI maybe you could add a setting to define prefered resolutions for Best Available and Normal and Worst Available... rather than the apparent gamble it currently is. It won't down the original source file as there is no single original source file but several files some mp4 video only at various resolutions some webm at various resolutions an audio only mp4 file that will be merged with the video only mp4 files in the player plus others... but No single original single source file.

David, just did a test with an 8K video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-RjGEWW3nk and it did not download the 8K 4320p video just the 3840x2160p .webm video when set to download the Best available. Would be nice to be able to download the 8K video if it is available in case we ever get an 8K TV...

DataDragon, Thank you so much for your valuable suggestion. We will improve our Allavsoft as possible as we can.

Ava, We will appreciate it very much if you may recommend our Allavsoft to others.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

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Thanks for your kind reply, David. I shared the link today via my Facebook profile. Thanks also for the info about your affiliate program. That's very useful! I will do what I can to share the product! Have a great rest of your weekend!

David, I just received on an Email address I use for giveaway comments that I don't recall ever sharing with you directly an unsolicited marketing email for a 70% off offer... while your intentions may have been loosely good you should not have obtained our email addresses without our consent (I have never given giveawayoftheday.com consent to share my personal data or email address with anyone) Assuming your method of obtaining my email address was legal... you must include an unsubscribe facility within any and every commercial email you send out otherwise you are in breach of EU directives and member state laws on commercial emailing and open yourself up to a significant per individual email financial penalty liability! As has giveawayoftheday.com if they have shared our personal email addresses with any 3rd party without our explicit consent.

Lau, Yes the video can be played anywhere. Simply download the video to your Smart TV supported video format. Then you may play them just as you play other video files.

Lau, That depends entirely upon your SmartTV and the software you use to "Cast" media. Those two peices of technology would have to use compatible casting protocols. e.g. Chromecast, Miracast, AllCast and so on. And the SmartTV must either be able to accept the media in the downloaded format or the casting software must be able to transcode the downloaded media into a format compatible with the SmartTV. There are far more variables than the default options that Allavsoft downloads content in when it comes to casting media to the myriad of SmartTV devices on the market. For my SmartTV which is "AllCast" enabled I find it is far better to use UPNP enabled DLNA server Serviio to stream media to my SmartTV rather than Cast it as casting is too messy in my experience. On my SmartTV it is far more seamless to browse the media on the Seriio server from my SmartTV and play media in as high a quality as downloaded and not have to push media to the SmartTV via some casting app that cannot be controlled by my SmartTV remote control.

Cyrille, I have the same problem with Chrome, and the program won't even let you installed the extension into Firefox. Extensions are worthless aparently. The only solution is to run the program and paste the URL of the website where the video is playing, it can download it that way.

Cyrille, There is no need to use the extension.
Simply install and run our Allavsoft and copy and paste the video or music url to Allavsoft to download the download.

little ricky, If so, please write to support@allavsoft.com We will offer you the download link and giveaway license

little ricky, this post looks the same as some day ago.
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/monstune/#comment-615883

Ootje,
it is...
apparently others as well as myself have been banned from this site.
just making a statement until it's corrected.
this is the ONLY site on the entire internet that i can't access.
WHY ?

little ricky, what is the exact URL you were trying when you got this 503 error? And can you repeat the 503 error you expereinced the other day too? There could be more obscure reasons for receiving 503 errors like ISP transparent web caches as well as other things.
Also do you get this 503 error regardless of what web browser you use? ( you do have access to multiple web browsers on the system having trouble?) If you only have IE and do not want to install a 3rd party browser you can usually find portable editions of popular 3rd party browsers like google chrome and Mozilla Firefox. I do not suspsect your browser cache as that is too easily flushed and reset. heck even CTRL + F5 can bypass cache issues on some browsers and force a fresh download of a page.

If it is a URL from this site or even more specifically one that starts with a files1 of files2 etc subdomain it could be that one of the several load sharing files download servers has some problem and without telling GAOTD which URL is consistently failing it would take expensive server admin time to plough through server logs to find the problems, but with the specific failing URLs it will simplify the processes by narrowing down the logs to search.

little ricky, "that i can't access."
There are many more pages, that you can not connect to. Country rules.
Some video I could open in my home-land and with the same laptop I could not open the URL in another country just 80Km.
So is the BBC-player only accessible from within the UK.

Beside that: did you check a home-device at another IP-address? At work? or library? Hospital?
I do get the idea, that your home-IP has trouble. Therefore the test at another IP-address to prove it. To be sure.
503 is a warning from the server. They will never say: you're banned. So they give a standard warning.
To visit GOTD I uses a mobile(Win10) and a laptop(Win8.1 and Win10). A posting, made on the laptop is directly to be seen at the mobile AND I can only vote ONCE on a posting. If I vote on mobile, I can not vote anymore on the laptop(vote exist). At a different PC on a different IP I see not the same content(with my postings), I see a new content as like other users see(with or without my own postings).
Also GOTD uses cookies. After asking for a downloadlink by mail, you cannot ask a new link on another mail-address. Already sent. After cleaning a lot of cookies, then it is possible to get a new one.
Or like someone said with a different browser etc. Also there are portable program:
h.t.tps://pendriveapps.com/

little ricky, Other possibilites that could cause 503 errors on your LAN... if all devices connected to your LANs gateway router are DHCP assigned IP details including DNS servers AND the assigned DNS server is the same as the gateway IP address it is *possible* that your routers local DNS cache could have a stale IP address in it which it is serving to LAN devices for a server that may have been depretiated from normal use but is still connected to the internet so it's there and connects but cannot serve content as its been retired in some way. IF that is the case turning your router OFF then ON again could/should flush the routers DNS cache. Another test you could do after doing that and if it still reports 503 error then if you have a smart phone with available data alowance you could try enabling the mobile hotspot on the smart phone and connecting your problem computers to that and trying to connect again and I suspect you will not get the 503 errors. When you use the VPN you get a new virtual IP address, gateway and DNS servers etc which is likely why that works. Server error 503 is not what I would expect to be the result of being banned from this or ANY website. Also your posts are making it through moderation in the same sporadic manner as the rest of us which WOULD NOT HAPPEN if you were banned from the site for ANY reason! If you were banned we would NEVER see any posts you make about the problems you are experiencing. The fact the moderator lets any through is proof YOU ARE NOT BANNED FROM THIS SITE as yet:)

Doc, Thank you so much for your recommendation.

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Same here. I got a lifetime license and the software updates frequently without requiring an uninstall as part of the process. It's nice that it gives you an option to download all songs in a playlist so you don't have to do them one at a time.

I mostly use it to download songs from Bandcamp (they let you listen a few times, but I usually want to listen a few more times before buying). I have 177 purchased albums in my collection so I don't think they're suffering from my method!

Update: have seamlessly downloaded a small video to .mp4 from Twitter

Alex, Nothing supports Netflix.

Phillip, Then why did they write in the manual that they support Netflix?
I do not think that any program downloads from Netfliks. But some programs at least allow automatically screen recording from Netflix.

Alex, You can record and play later or stream to tv with playon such as after the video has been taken down, its similar to the old dvr/vcr recording for later. I believe it marks the videos as tied to your account to prevent piracy.
https://www.playon.tv/how-to-guide/how-to-download-and-watch-netflix-offline

You can also likely record netflix or other streaming services using this programs REC real time screen capture for later viewing like a dvr/vcr, but not for sharing/distribution to others or breaking terms of a paid video.

DataDragon, I was looking for something like that, thanks.

Chris,
old program for free => awesome for users
new version for free => end of business

next time read description:
NB: Llifetime license with no updates.

Chris, the difference between the giveaway version and the current version is 3.17.1.6999 and 3.17.1.7006 a minimal change in build number likely due to the difference between organising the giveaway and the actual giveaway. It is not even a minor version revision which for example 3.18 or greater should invalidate the giveaway license. But slight changes in build number only should not hurt the registration. Back on 1st March 2019 I downloaded and installed the trial 3.17.1.6994 and it did download youtube videos but remained trial not acepting the previous giveaway 3.16 license as expected. This giveaway build and the previous build and the new build did not download any youtube videos today, stalling at 0% under vista using remote desktop and suggesting I press REC to screen record instead of downloading under Win10.
Others have claimed that youtube download had worked for them today... so may be some problems with the specific videos I have tried or some other issue I've not managed to discover as yet.

Chris, The main function of Allavsoft is to directly download video or music. Simply copy and paste the video or music url(s) to it and click Download button. It is much easier than record.

Antero, Please do contact Avast, and let them to manually test our software then you will know our Allavsoft is safe to use.
Or simply keep this giveaway version and license code, and then register after one month, then the FileRepMalware report will automatically disappear

David, why not consider not to include code that will trigger this?

cave, the FileRepMalware is a peer policing based protection where the AV developers DO NOT check to see if a reported unsafe program is really unsafe. All it takes is a few negative reports on a file and the AV program will produce the FileRepMalware or Artemis which is McAfees version of that style of scareware report. Such peer reports can be made maliciously against developers files by those with personal vendeters or financial incentive to make life as difficult as possible for a software vendor. David could make it less easy for such malicious "peer" reports to be accepted by digitally signing his installers and executable files so at least he can certify the files he are providing are digitally intact and have not been infected by malware and that he is a bonafide developer that has provided enough information about himself and his business to obtain a legitimate digital certificate to sign his programs with.

Ray Eason, some of the video site updated, therefore we also update our Allavsoft to support the new change.

David, as a paying subscriber to Allavsoft I find that one of the differentiating features compared with nearly every other software vendor is your very fast and effective support.

Usually within an hour or two of submitting a report a reply comes back from Allavsoft, and if necessary a software update/fix within a day or two -- or even just a few hours -- which is exceptionally good support.

Stuart Berg, The giveaway license is a lifetime license for the giveaway version but limit update.
Now the giveaway promotion is for 3.17, therefore, you may redownload the 3.17 and then register with the new license key.

David,
That worked perfectly and I see from a comment above that some of the video sites changed so you updated your software from 3.16 to 3.17. Thank you.

Bob, We just test the youtube website and it still works, please send the youtube url to support@allavsoft.com

Bob, I've got the same problem with their last giveaway. I can use it to convert files I've already downloaded but it will not download anything from YouTube.

mcleod55 here. I just turned off my ad blocker and they were right. It started downloading. I don't have this problem with others but that's OK. It does work as advertised. Thanks

David, I think it could be that at least under windows 10 allavsoft seems to take an inordinatly long time from pressing the download button to actually showing any progress from 0% and once it finally shows the progress the download procedes normally. It is that initial delay that one can forget will happen that gives the impression it has failed... There used to be a time when the youtube downloads started almost imediatly, like within the first 20 seconds after pressing the download arrow button... now they can take several minutes to get going.... found out what was causing my previous experience with it switching to press REC mode was down to tinywall windows 10 firewall addon defaulting to blocking outbound connections on new installed programs but without generating a notification it blocked the outbound attempt... still working on getting used to that and generating the rule to permit access for the new program. I don't know if the youtube delay is an unsurmountable design feature that youtube has enforced on you or some programatic timeout induced delay that could be programmed around but if it is possible to program around it I would recomend you do as it will reduce the number of it's not working, or it stalled at 0% reports that you are probably getting with 3.17 builds.

TK, I have now removed TinyWall as it caused more problems than it was worth... making RDP sessions unreliable and always blocking programs by default with no option to notify... it also does not handle long paths on certain programs that install into the %appdata% hierarchy instead of the proper place.... A right pain! It also broke network discovery service controls with no way to browse the LAN for UPNP media devices or MS networking devices.

алексей ...
Я не знаю об этой версии, но веб-сайт Allevsoft показывает вер. 3.15 была доступна на русском языке недавно. Я думаю, что эта версия будет иметь такую ​​же поддержку. Посетите российский веб-сайт GOTD, чтобы увидеть: https://ru.giveawayoftheday.com/allavsoft-3-15/

David Poole, Same happened to me, I then disabled the browser ad-blocker and the link works.

David Poole, I just downloaded it using Firefox - didn't have to disable the adblocker or anything else.

Eddie, Well I tested this again and the download link works without disabling the adblocker, but I had to click three or four times on it, not sure about the reason.

David Poole, Please send the video or music url to support@allavsoft.com

David Poole, Try downloading simple spoken video, not protected music content from YouTube. In my opinion, youtube began to block downloads namely copyright music videos. I have it on all regular video downloaders.

David, I don´t think you understand, he is complaining about the download link on this website and not your software.

adid, In some situation, there is no internet connection. Also for video course sometime i like to only play audio not the video, then this Allavsoft helps

adid, in the current climate of overly keen censorship, some nonconformist and even some actually quite innocuous videos are being removed from video sharing websites. So people might want to use this software to download a video if they think there is a likelihood that it will soon be deleted by the site it is being hosted on.

David, Please feel free to contact us if you have any question via support@allavsoft.com

Taylor, We are so sorry that currently we no longer support extension, which does not affect the download and convert function.
You may copy and paste the video, music url, playlist to Allavsoft

We will add it again in future.

Taylor, who the hell uses opera lol

Taylor, Opera, Chinese browser safe? Really?

Taylor, Try Vivaldi ... from the makers of Opera ...before it was sold off.

Sell your info, The Opera browser is developed and owned by Opera Software AS, Oslo, Norway. They have an office in China, but that does not make them a Chinese company.

Taylor, I can say more: no Opera means no Allavsoft, because Opera is my basic browser.

Jenny Garfield, Vivaldi is not Opera. Homepage of Opera: https://www.opera.com/da/about

I read this.

F Tummelumsen, Vivaldi is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita. It was officially launched on April 6, 2016.[8][9]

krypteller, No, I have not seen that. Funny that the homepage says: We are a Norwegian company with headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and branches and offices in Poland, Sweden and China.
Their news posts from 2015, -16 and -17 have no information about change of ownership.

krypteller, thank you for the information of Opera owners. I have to find my new basic browser in next days.

Miro, Never heard of CTRL + C to copy the video URL and Allavsoft then reads the URL from the clipboard!
There is NO need for browser integration.

Miro, Maybe an idea Slimjet: sort of Chrome without ad's.
Not all is good for me, but as extra it is OK.
/www.slimjet.com/?lang=en