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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