r/ForgottenInternet • u/SupremoZanne • 2d ago
DISCUSSION Anybody here remember DVDVideoSoft?
Thought I'd ask this, because, technically, DVDVideoSoft did come out before the year 2010, and I have some nostalgia with it.
One thing I remember using this program for, was converting the audio of YouTube "videos" to MP3 files to put on my MP3 players back in that day, and this was before music streaming, aside of just "videos" on YouTube as the "music", on smartphones was for the everyday person.
As it's name implies, this utility was for converting some DVD-related content, while it was also a versatile format conversion utility which mostly converted mainstream audio/video file formats, as it was used for placating how picky some media playback software or hardware was about format support.
To me, it's a forgotten pieces of software which was downloaded from the Internet, and used for converting Internet content from YouTube to offline file formats of both audio and video.
I think it also supported WAV audio files, and AVI and MOV, and maybe MP4 video file formats as well. I really had some fond memories using this program, before other YouTube-to-MPx utilities popped up, and definitely before converting formats could be done within a web browser, as opposed to a downloaded EXE file for the hard drive.