CoApp Installation
Some operations required by Video DownloadHelper cannot be performed from within the browser. In order to be able to still do the job, the add-on relies on our external application that is called transparently. We call it the Companion Application (CoApp).
The Companion App is an Open Source software. You can find the code here.
🚨🚨🚨 If the app is not recognized by the extension, please read the troubleshooting section. 🚨🚨🚨
If you prefer a DMG, you can find them here, please start the app at least once to trigger the registration mechanism (not necessary for Pkg).
./vdhcoapp install (not as root) after extracting the binaries (not necessary for .deb).
We also have Linux packages that use the system ffmpeg (regular packages come with a prebuilt ffmpeg). These are for advanced users and are available as "noffmpeg" builds here.
This documentation is about Video DownloadHelper.