FVD uses a generalized way of finding the videos so I can't guarantee that it will work on every site; the flip side to this is that it doesn't have to be specifically designed to work on each site. Hulu is one of the sites that it doesn't work with; additionally, Hulu's videos are copyrighted so you shouldn't be downloading them anyways.

FVD is designed for batch downloading of videos (e.g. you have 20 videos you want to download so you leave it running while you go do something else). While you obviously can use it to download just a single video, and many people do, being able to sense the current video isn't relevant to batch downloading. Also, being able to sense the current video would require a browser plugin/extension and there are many of these designed for that purpose.

Also, if you email me the URLs that didn't work, I can try to figure out why its not working. But keep in mind that FVD will not work with every website.

If you email me the URLs I can look into why their not working with FVD.

I have a MacBook Pro with OS 10.5.1 and I can't duplicate your issue. When it immediately shuts down, do you mean the computer all of a sudden is off, or do you mean that the OS does the shutdown procedure?

You could try downloading Flash Video Downloader 2 again and installing it again. Perhaps it somehow got corrupted.

Yes it shuts down all of a sudden. No warning just shut down. It does in both modes - battery and power. I will uninstall the current version, download it and install again. See what happens. :-)

Otherwise it's great app!

Exact same thing happend to me on my 24" iMac !!

Weirdest thing I ever saw! (I'm running 10.4.10)

I tried it 5 times in a row-and it did the same thing!

Go into Preferences and turn off "Shut Down When Finished" .

Scrivens tip from the previous reply is for if your computer is shutting down after you finish downloading video(s). From what I understand, its shutting down when you start the application?

For now, we can try a workaround (which will also help me to figure out what is happening).
1. Open a program such as TextEdit and create a new document
2. Write some text (anything) in the document but don't save it
3. Open Flash Video Downloader 2. If it tries to shut down the computer the proper way, TextEdit should ask you if you want to save the document before you quit.
4. Click the cancel button and OS X should tell you that the shutdown was interrupted.

Does that happen? Or does it shutdown anyways?

I'm not sure what could be causing Flash Video Downloader 2 to shutdown your computer on startup, it can only do it when finishing a download, and it uses an applescript command which can be interrupted as described above.

You can use the above as a workaround, if it works. If not, please do the following
1. Open Flash Video Downloader 2 (which will shutdown the computer if you're having this issue).
2. Turn the computer back on and open the Console application ( It's in the Applications/Utilities folder)
3. Click show Log List and a list of logs will be shown on the left side of the window (it may already be there)
4. Select All Messages
5. Then go to File->Save A Copy As...
6. Save a copy of your all messages log (its a .log file) somewhere (e.g. your desktop)
7. Please attach that .log file to an email and send it to tesseractsoftware[at]gmail.com (do NOT post it in this reply on macupdate)

This will hopefully allow me to see any messages that came up from Flash Video Downloader 2, your computer, or some other application before it shuts down. It will give me more insight into what is happening right before your computer shuts down.

I hope that we can figure this out.

yes, open text edit document asks to save the document. if I click CANCEL the apple info dialog appears: "the application text edit canceled the shut down". if there are no open documents like this it shuts down without asking.

I haven't tried the FVD with the "quit after download is finished" check box off. I will try and tell you if it helped.

If you could tell me what the URL you tried was, I could help you.

For exemple this one

http://www.kewego.fr/video/iLyROoaftYZx.html

kewego.fr is not a supported website. Flash Video Downloader queries the website videodownloader.net to figure out where to get the file to download. So, if videodownloader.net cannot download the file (which on their website they don't list kewego.fr as being supported) then Flash Video Downloader cannot download the file. I suggest that you email videodownloader.net and ask them to add support for kewego.fr