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Taking my sweet, sweet time with updates, it seems. Raiding in WoW is picking up pace and it’s goooood stuff.

But anyway! YouChoob! A new version, no less. Not that there are many changes, or anything. A few months ago I put in support for batch downloading videos (using its very own window) but I ran into a slight problem in that I couldn’t think of a good way of integrating it with the main download window. In fact, whenever I loaded the source into Visual Studio to continue it, I just groaned and worked on another application instead.

Rather than just indefinitely delaying the next release, I disabled the batch stuff and added support for downloading high quality versions of videos. In fact, there are three quality tiers, which are…

High Definition Quality

If YouChoob finds that there is a high definition version of the video available (not likely as these are very uncommon), then it gets the highest priority and will be downloaded.

High Quality

If no HD version was found, then a high quality version will be checked for instead. By “high quality”, it means high quality by YouTube‘s standards. It’s the new video quality that was introduced a few months back.

Standard Quality

If neither of the above quality versions can be found for the entered video link, then the standard rubbish YouTube quality version of the video will be downloaded.

The above quality checks are performed automatically by YouChoob when you tell it to download your video; other than the increased file size of the video file, there is absolutely no extra overhead involved in the quality checking procedures noted above.

Link: YouChoob Information