My understanding is that these are as long as the tool the contributor used can make. Plus longer videos run into storage space concerns. So for the near term at least quick clips like this is probably all we’re gonna get.
Hmm, someone asked how to save a video like this and I wrote a long comment and both the question and answer were lost in transition. I wonder if the person who asked saw the answer before it was deleted. This is complicated by the fact that I left out or at the least didn’t explain one step well. Hmm.
Sorry about that, your comment was made on the old side after I already made the copy that got turned into the new one.
But yeah, you can save them by looking at the page source and searching for “.mp4” which will show the URL, or in Firefox, Ctrl+I or Tools -> Page Info and going to the Media tab. (I assume other browsers have similar features but I couldn’t tell you how to get there off hand.) I suppose I could look into making it easier, but obviously I still have a lot of things to work on from the host change.
Well, drat, I just typed a long reply, didn’t save a copy, went to post it, it said I got the captcha wrong and to backspace to try again, and the comment had disappeared! That will teach me to save comments before I try to post them!
Okay, what did I just say?
I’ve had trouble finding what I want on Page Source, so what I described was pressing F12 (only works on a desktop, I guess) to bring up what may be called Developer Tools. In the Search HTML window, type the file type you think you’re looking for, in this case mp4. The step I left out is that then you have to press Enter, which finds the first hit. Right click the link and if it says Open in New Tab, do that. In this case the first hit is what we’re looking for and a version appears in the new tab that can be downloaded. If not, an X of Y counter with up and down arrows appears that can be used to find more hits. In this case the first 3 hits are ALL the video we want, which in my experience is unusual (it’s usually only listed once).
But Page Source may be better; I may simply be bad at using it.
This seems a good time to thank you for your work creating, hosting, editing, and maintaining this blog. Thanks.
Sorry about the captcha thing. I’m normally always logged in, so if there’s a problem with how that works it’s easy for me to miss. I’ll see if it’s something I can improve.
Longer videos like this please !
My understanding is that these are as long as the tool the contributor used can make. Plus longer videos run into storage space concerns. So for the near term at least quick clips like this is probably all we’re gonna get.
Hmm, someone asked how to save a video like this and I wrote a long comment and both the question and answer were lost in transition. I wonder if the person who asked saw the answer before it was deleted. This is complicated by the fact that I left out or at the least didn’t explain one step well. Hmm.
Sorry about that, your comment was made on the old side after I already made the copy that got turned into the new one.
But yeah, you can save them by looking at the page source and searching for “.mp4” which will show the URL, or in Firefox, Ctrl+I or Tools -> Page Info and going to the Media tab. (I assume other browsers have similar features but I couldn’t tell you how to get there off hand.) I suppose I could look into making it easier, but obviously I still have a lot of things to work on from the host change.
Well, drat, I just typed a long reply, didn’t save a copy, went to post it, it said I got the captcha wrong and to backspace to try again, and the comment had disappeared! That will teach me to save comments before I try to post them!
Okay, what did I just say?
I’ve had trouble finding what I want on Page Source, so what I described was pressing F12 (only works on a desktop, I guess) to bring up what may be called Developer Tools. In the Search HTML window, type the file type you think you’re looking for, in this case mp4. The step I left out is that then you have to press Enter, which finds the first hit. Right click the link and if it says Open in New Tab, do that. In this case the first hit is what we’re looking for and a version appears in the new tab that can be downloaded. If not, an X of Y counter with up and down arrows appears that can be used to find more hits. In this case the first 3 hits are ALL the video we want, which in my experience is unusual (it’s usually only listed once).
But Page Source may be better; I may simply be bad at using it.
This seems a good time to thank you for your work creating, hosting, editing, and maintaining this blog. Thanks.
Now, make a copy BEFORE trying to post.
Sorry about the captcha thing. I’m normally always logged in, so if there’s a problem with how that works it’s easy for me to miss. I’ll see if it’s something I can improve.
More and longer videos like this please 🙂
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