937030 - Cannot download videos from air.mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 943597

(Air Mozilla :: Content, defect)

Description

[Frederik Braun [:freddy]]

I used to download videos from air.m.o to watch them later. This does not appear to be possible anymore and it might be due to the player.

I suppose either the API or the content provider changed but it used to be native video (<video> element?) that I could just right-click and "save video as"... now it seems to be running in a frame or something that disallows saving.

This makes me sad :)

Comment 1

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Richard, I see that you're the AMO product owner. Is there anything we can do about this? I really feel like we should own our videos and have better access to them. I used to be able to take those with me when I travel but due to vid.ly we can't download them anymore :(

Comment 2

[Richard A Milewski[:richard]]

The public videos are available for download at http://videos.mozilla.org/airmozilla/public/events/

Sadly, those are still mostly .f4v ( H.264 Flash Video ) files.

...but it is possible to download public streams from Vid.ly.  We ought to be able to add a download link to the event pages.  We'll just have to pick one of the 22 formats and have everyone use that.  I'm guessing 720p WebM would be the first choice?

Thanks for the suggestion!

Comment 3

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

I agree we should expose a link. 720p WebM is a good choice; an additional smaller resolution like 360p would be useful for Firefox OS. It's unfortunate vid.ly doesn't use more meaningful urls: everything is webm.webm.

In the past I've done my own transcodes of the f4v files on videos.mozilla.org. I can start doing that again if there's interest, or share my scripts if someone else wants to automate it.

That videos.mozilla.org url doesn't work for me, btw.

Comment 4

[Richard A Milewski[:richard]]

I think we're going to change how we submit things to vidly.  Right now we get more formats than I suspect we really use.  We're looking at switching from Vid.ly to Encoding.com (same company actually), and being more selective about target formats.  Suggestions welcome as to what's important to have.

Comment 6

[Frederik Braun [:freddy]]

fixing typo in bug id