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by Retr0id 601 days ago
From a UX perspective, right-click-save-as should absolutely be a thing that works.

But the fact that it doesn't isn't some kind of industry-wide conspiracy, it's just not an easy feature for a browser to implement in a generic way, given how streamed video works.
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Retr0id 601 days ago
Maybe I should write a browser extension that actually does do this generically, by hooking the SourceBuffer interface, increasing the playback speed, and remuxing into a container format.
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londons_explore 601 days ago
Even better, send a pull request to Blink to add this feature. It doesn't actually need to play the whole content, merely fire the right js events to get all the content loaded before doing a save.

It would ideally get integrated into the browser "downloading..." UI too, although I could imagine that being technically hard to do.

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