In the spirit of beta testing I've decided to run a speed test comparing the V6 beta VSO Downloader against five other video stream downloaders. Only one of the six is a free program (FireDM). For the test I decided to use a typical 1 hour TV show found on a non-DRM video streaming website. Only one of the six programs is able to download and de-encrypt DRM protected streaming videos of the likes found on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, and etc. (StreamFab). To be specific, each program downloaded a recent episode of Dynasty (S05E03) at TheCW channel (
https://www.cwtv.com/shows/dynasty/how- ... ed31a09a82). Times were taken manually by me using a wristwatch because not every program had a log file from which I could gather the exact times. I then rounded the time to the nearest 30 seconds for simplicity sake. It should be remembered that there are an enormous number of factors that could affect the results and so the acronym YMMV from the car industry (Your mileage may vary) also applies here.
Results :::::
VSO Downloader 6.0.0.70 (beta) - 7:30 minutes
TubeDigger 7.4.5 - 2:30 minutes
FireDM 2022.2.5 - 1:00 minute
Wonderfox HD Video Converter Factory Pro 24.7 - 5:00 minutes
StreamFab 5.0.2.4 - 6:30 minutes
Internet Download Manager 6.40 - 2:00 minutes
Conclusion :::::
Clearly the developers at VSO need to make a huge improvement in Downloader's speed before it can be released as Stable. This was not the only test I ran but it seemed to be the most representative of the others. On one test VSO Downloader was such an outlier that it took 31 minutes to download a 28 minute TV show from Dailymotion while it took the others in the 2-3 minute range. Screen capture would have been faster.