XDM: Download Accelerator and Video Downloader for GNU / Linux

XDM: Download Accelerator and Video Downloader for GNU / Linux

Basically, the average computer user wants to have Internet for 2 things. The first, browsing and thus being able to work or enjoy the vast and almost unlimited Internet content, and the second, Download everything that is possible to have it at hand, in case, then you do not have Internet or present problems or slowness with the connection, among many other possible reasons.

Due to this, having a good browser or desktop application complement to manage frequent download activities is usually something essential for any user, average or not. Between the Web Browser Plugins, the well-known "Video Downloadhelper" and between Cross-platform Desktop Applications, usually highlights "JDownloader2". However, there are many more equal to or better than the latter, such as, xdm or better known as Xtreme DownloadManager.

JDownloader2: An excellent Download Manager for Linux

It is worth noting that indeed JDownloader2Not only is it another open source program, but it also has the support of a huge community that participates in its development, making it an excellent program that makes downloads very fast and easy.

Reason why, after reading this current publication on Xtreme DownloadManager, we invite you to read our previous related publication about it, by clicking on the following link:

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JDownloader2: An excellent Download Manager for Linux

XDM: Powerful Video Downloader and Download Accelerator

What is XDM?

According to his Official website en sourceforce and Developer, this app is:

"A powerful tool capable of increasing download speed up to 500%, save and convert videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Google Video and thousands of other websites, resume interrupted or dead downloads, and schedule downloads".

In addition, he adds that it integrates perfectly with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox Quantum, Opera, Vivaldi and many popular browsers, to take over the downloads and save the streaming videos of the web. And it has a built-in video converter that allows you to convert downloaded videos to popular ones MP4 and MP3 formats.

And finally, he describes that currently xdm includes support for:

• HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DASH, HLS, HDS protocols,
• Use of Firewalls, Proxy Servers, PAC Scripts,
• File redirections, Cookie handling, Authorizations, Download queues, among many others.

Installation and use

xdm currently going for the stable version number 7.2.11 with installers available for both Windows, as Mac OS and Linux. However, it easily keeps installers available for older versions, such as, the version 7.2.10 and 7.2.8 at their official site on GitHub.

In my personal case, I have downloaded it to your portable version under the ".jar" format made in java (11). Taking advantage of that, my MX Linux distribution I have it configured very well, so that it efficiently manages (executes) the use of this format.

When running XDM, it shows us a Graphical User Interface (GUI) clean and simple, as shown in the image immediately above, which will indicate whether or not there is a new version available to download and use.

And it also shows us a window, which invites us to install a plugin download management, for some of the Web browsers more common. In my case, I currently use Mozilla Firefox, so it has indicated the installation of the following plugin, which I have successfully installed.

Features

Despite being a small and simple program, it has many features and options available, because we will mention 3 outstanding features, and in case you want to delve into them, we invite you to read them all, in English, by clicking on the following link or see the next video tutorial on YouTube, in Spanish, about XDM 2020 7.2.10, since a video explains more than a thousand words.

1. It achieves an increase in the average download speed, 5 or 6 times more, in some cases.
2. Allows resumption of broken or dead downloads caused by a connection problem, a power failure, or session expiration.
3. Includes clipboard monitoring, automatic antivirus check, and system shutdown upon download completion.

Conclusion

We hope this "useful little post" about «XDM (Xtreme Download Manager)», which is a simple, light and powerful application to be used on our GNU / Linux Distros in order to improve our management of file downloads from the Internet; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».

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