[PLUG] Recording non-downloadable videos

[Ronald Bynoe]

Sure, you can use vlc or ffmpeg to trim your videos. I'd take a look at
youtube-dl also (dnf install youtube-dl or apt-get install it). It's super
powerful for downloading all sorts of files from many website types. We use
it for videos at Church or the classroom to ensure playback without ads,
suggested videos, and so the actual video can be integrated in a
presentation tool like OpenLP.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 09:13 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, Ronald Bynoe wrote:
>
> > So, correct me if you've already tried this, but video download helpers
> > have been around for a long time. Have you tried any of them before
> > resorting to a screen recorder? I just loaded up pathable.com and tried
> > their demo video, it downloaded fine:
>
> Ronald,
>
> I've not before needed/wanted to download a video so I had no idea that
> video download helpers were available for firefox.
>
> I just added the firefox video downloadhelper; it suggested adding its
> coapp helper. This is downloaded and untarred without instructions for
> making it available to firefox's download helper.
>
> In /opt/net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.5.0/ are
> LICENSE.txt  README.txt  bin/  config.json  converter/
>
> in the bin/ directory are
> net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64*  xdg-open*
>
> Does firefox know to look for and use these?
>
> Also, when I get these sesstions stored here as *.mp4 I need to cut off the
> initial portion which is a session notice screen. It's time is variable.
> This leads me to two questions: 1) How do I move the video cursor finely
> enough to get to the actual recording? and 2) Is VLC's cut capability
> suitable for clipping off this dead space at the beginning of the video?
> My reading suggests it's designed to cut out the part to be saved.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion,
>
> Rich
>
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