Use Orbit Downloader as Metalink Downloader
How to download files via Metalink using Orbit Downloader?
Metalink is an Open Standard that bundles the various ways (FTP/HTTP/P2P) to get files into one format for easier download. More and More software developers provide metalink files to download their client.
Orbit Downloader support metalink download. Using Orbit Downloader you can download files via Metalink more easily and quickly.
For example, OpenOffice.org provides a metalink file to download OpenOffice. Just click the metalink download link :
Then Orbit Downloader will catch the metalink file download URL automatically. Click “OK” to download the metalink file to your drive:
You can see the metalink file is downloaded very quickly.
And after download the metalink file completed, Orbit Download will download the final software automatically: