If you have used IDM, you may know that IDM has a powerful feature of sniffing various video, audio, and other resources on websites, and then providing quick downloads. However, IDM is unfortunately a paid software. For friends who are unwilling to pay for IDM, Xiaoz has found a free software called "Hitomi-Downloader". Hitomi-Downloader can also download images/videos/music/text content from various websites, and it supports almost all mainstream websites, including your favorite P-site.

Features of Hitomi-Downloader

• Simple and clear user interface
• Download acceleration
• Support for 24 threads in a single task
• Support for speed limit
• Support for user scripts
• Support for BitTorrent and magnet links
• Support for M3U8 and MPD format videos
• Dark mode
• Portable
• Clipboard monitor
• Easy organization of tasks

Download Hitomi-Downloader

You can go to GitHub to download the latest version: https://github.com/KurtBestor/Hitomi-Downloader/releases. If you encounter difficulties in downloading and need Xiaoz's assistance, please leave a message for feedback.

Note: This software currently only supports Windows systems.

Demo

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User Experience

Every time you open it, it will check for updates, which takes a few tens of seconds. This experience is not very good. Personally, I think it would be better to achieve background silent update checking.

After downloading some videos, it will call ffmpeg for conversion. I found that the conversion speed is very slow. Xiaoz's computer has an RTX 3050 graphics card and an AMD 3600 CPU, which is not considered too low-end, but the conversion is still slow.

If you want to download videos from inaccessible P-sites or YouTube, you need to set the "Options -- Settings -- Advanced Settings -- Proxy -- Set HTTP Proxy". Otherwise, you cannot download (you know the reason). Most ss tools or v2ray clients support HTTP proxies, but I won't go into detail here. Please explore on your own.

After setting it up, Xiaoz tried downloading videos from P-site and it worked fine (videos from P-site surprisingly do not need to be transcoded).

Summary

1. Hitomi-Downloader only supports Windows systems.
2. Some videos downloaded by Hitomi-Downloader need to be transcoded before they can be used. Xiaoz tested that transcoding is very slow, not sure if it's an isolated case.
3. If you want to download videos from foreign websites, you need to set up a proxy by yourself.
4. Hitomi-Downloader supports a wide range of video websites.

Hitomi-Downloader project address: https://github.com/KurtBestor/Hitomi-Downloader