"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
12/13/2015 at 21:55 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
12/13/2015 at 21:55 • Filed to: None | 2
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Today I attempted to download a video of my CAP squadron participating in Wreaths Across America; you may have seen my post asking for help. Things didn’t go according to plan, with the only things that I was able to download were a bunch of ads for crappy pizza and crappier cable companies. I did this without any of the normal extensions active in my browser, so for the first time I got to be bombarded with all of the ads and garbage that I normally bypass.
Hey companies - there’s a reason we use these things. Yes, I know you need to monetize the experience, but I hate you for the way you’re going about it. Pop-ups, pop-unders, all those “just watch 5 seconds” crap - it’s all a gigantic PITA. Despite your gentle pleas to sign up for your premium ad-free services and other attempts to guilt me into slowing down my system and cluttering my screen, I’m going to go back to a clean environment in which I have some measure of control.
Nibby
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
12/13/2015 at 21:57 |
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adblock yo
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Nibby
12/13/2015 at 22:01 |
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Oh yeah. Adblock, hide Adblock, I’m a Gentleman, Adblock for YouTube, FlashBlock, Image Downloader - they’re all re-enabled. Life is so much better with a well-chosen set of extensions.
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Nibby
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
12/13/2015 at 22:06 |
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Rid all of them and just use uBlock with chrome or firefox
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Nibby
12/13/2015 at 22:15 |
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I’m giving it a try right now. Hopefully it’s all I need.
bangbangbangbangbang
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
12/13/2015 at 22:58 |
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I looked into your video problem, but got sidetracked by my finals...
The reason that video is so hard to download is because, as I understand it, it was an mp4 file broken into separate fragments and streamed from an Akamai server to a flash video player in your browser. The process to directly download looks pretty involved, so it may almost be easier just for you to screencap it...
Here’s the steps I took to find the video files:
Assuming you’re in Google Chrome in a tab that is NOT the one your video is in, click on the three horizontal bars in the Chrome menu bar, then go: More Tools>Developer Tools.
Once you have the Developer Tools window open, click on “Network” on the top navigation bar just under your bookmarks bar.
Now, navigate to the page your video is on and start the video (I think your video autoplays). You should see some entries start popping into the list midway down the Developer Tools Network tab, within these are the f4f video files that should make up your video. Let the video run for a few seconds and then pause it. Some entries might still pop up into the network list, wait for a few seconds then click on the “Type” bar at the top of the list to sort the entries. You’ll be looking for files listed as “video/f4f” with names like “0_7f5968e440d20ba6_Seg1-Frag4...” like I’ve boxed in the red rectangle:
Unfortunately, I haven’t done anything past possibly identifying your video. To download, I believe you’ll need to follow the instructions in this forum: http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/342430… , posts #16 and #17 possibly?
Good luck!
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bangbangbangbangbang
> bangbangbangbangbang
12/14/2015 at 00:15 |
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Edit: If you end up trying this method, you’ll probably want to let the video run all the way through to grab all the fragments in the Network recorder, so after it starts playing, don’t pause it. “0_7f5968e440d20ba6_Seg1-Frag36...” was the last fragment I recorded in watching the whole video, so I assume you have a total of 36 fragments to grab.
functionoverfashion
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
12/14/2015 at 08:37 |
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Maybe I’m late to the party, but the easiest way to “save” a video that’s on screen if you don’t have direct access to the files may just be with a screen-capturing program that’s intended for things like recording webinars, how-to videos, etc. I have used Camtasia Studio (which I have access to through my work) to capture and save videos for later offline use, like watching netflix offline. (No, I don’t torrent these or anything. Really.)
How long is the video you’re trying to save? Is it just the 2:24 I see? If that’s all you’re looking for, I’ll just capture it for you and send you a dropbox link to the file. Happy Holidays, etc.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> functionoverfashion
12/14/2015 at 10:55 |
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Thanks for your help. I tried to use a freeware capture program but found that its quirks help to explain its price. Yes, it’s just the one segment I’m trying to capture and I would be quite grateful if you could snag that for me; it sounds like you’ve already got the software installed and working, so it would probably be a relatively straightforward task.
I used to use StreamTransport for this function and it did an absolutely fantastic job, but something has changed over the years and now it no longer functions. There’s a redirect to a login now, with no option to create an account, so I guess I'll have to assume that it's dead :(