Dailymotion Video Downloader
Dailymotion is supported natively, which means no extra components to install and nothing to keep updated by hand. Paste a video link, choose a rendition, and the file lands on your disk.
Dailymotion delivers most of its catalogue over HLS rather than as plain MP4 files, so pvdownloader reads the quality ladder the player itself would use and lets you pick from it. Where a video still has a progressive MP4 file, that is offered as well.
What you can download from Dailymotion
Video, up to source quality
pvdownloader asks Dailymotion which renditions exist and shows you that list. The top of it is whatever the platform is serving for that particular video.
Subtitles
When Dailymotion exposes a caption track for a video, it is downloaded as a separate file rather than burned into the picture.
No re-encoding
The stream is saved exactly as Dailymotion serves it, so there is no generation loss and no quality you did not ask for.
How to download from Dailymotion
- 1
Copy the video link
Open the video on Dailymotion and copy the URL from the address bar. Short dai.ly links, embed links and player links all resolve to the same video, so any of them will do.
- 2
Paste it into pvdownloader
The app reads the video's metadata — title, duration and uploader — along with the list of available renditions, and shows you those before anything is written to disk.
- 3
Choose a quality and download
Pick a rendition and start the job. The file is saved exactly as Dailymotion serves it, with no second pass over the video stream.
Geo-restrictions, and what is not supported yet
Playlists and channel pages are not supported yet. pvdownloader downloads single videos on Dailymotion, so pasting a playlist or user URL will not queue a batch — each video currently needs its own link. That is the honest state of it, rather than a limitation you should discover after pasting a URL.
The limitation no downloader can work around is regional restriction. If Dailymotion refuses to serve a video to your connection, pvdownloader sees exactly the same refusal. It downloads what you can already watch; it does not route around geo-blocks or pretend to be somewhere else.
Because the provider is built into the application rather than added on, a platform change on Dailymotion's side arrives as a normal app update instead of a component you have to fetch and keep current yourself. That is the practical difference between a native provider and an optional engine.
Dailymotion downloader FAQ
Other platforms with native support
Looking for something else? The full list of supported platforms covers both the built-in providers and everything reachable through yt-dlp.
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