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Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Post by bluetidepro »

Off topic but related… With so many ways to get around downloading videos/media like this for example, I will never understand why companies don’t just allow videos to be saved like a picture. Add a simple download button to make it obvious and simple for users to download a video. For example, Tiktok has this, and just adds their watermark to the downloaded video.

It’s just a false sense of security to users when they think people “can’t” download their content. Even apps like Snapchat that are marketed to be “save proof” are def not. I think it’s a betrayal to the user for any company to pretend a user’s media is “safe” from downloads/screenshots/etc.

Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Post by [deleted] »

bluetidepro wrote: post #21

Off topic but related… With so many ways to get around downloading videos/media like this for example, I will never understand why companies don’t just allow videos to be saved like a picture. Add a simple download button to make it obvious and simple for users to download a video. For example, Tiktok has this, and just adds their watermark to the downloaded video. It’s just a false sense of security to users when th…

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Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

#23

Post by Retr0id »

londons_explore wrote: post #10

I'm sure this is a feature of the browser... Just right click the video and "save as" and it'll give you a .mp4 file right? Or just Ctrl+C to copy the video onto the clipboard. Oh wait, we let commercial interests take that functionality from us...

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.

Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Post by drexlspivey »

bluetidepro wrote: post #21

Off topic but related… With so many ways to get around downloading videos/media like this for example, I will never understand why companies don’t just allow videos to be saved like a picture. Add a simple download button to make it obvious and simple for users to download a video. For example, Tiktok has this, and just adds their watermark to the downloaded video. It’s just a false sense of security to users when th…

Pretty obvious isn’t it? If you download the video from youtube/twitter/whatever and you watch it from your hard drive next time, they can’t serve you an ad.

Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

#25

Post by RobotToaster »

bluetidepro wrote: post #21

Off topic but related… With so many ways to get around downloading videos/media like this for example, I will never understand why companies don’t just allow videos to be saved like a picture. Add a simple download button to make it obvious and simple for users to download a video. For example, Tiktok has this, and just adds their watermark to the downloaded video. It’s just a false sense of security to users when th…

If they used standard HTML video elements it would be just as easy, but everyone wants to use their own non-standard players.

Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Post by [deleted] »

bluetidepro wrote: post #21

Off topic but related… With so many ways to get around downloading videos/media like this for example, I will never understand why companies don’t just allow videos to be saved like a picture. Add a simple download button to make it obvious and simple for users to download a video. For example, Tiktok has this, and just adds their watermark to the downloaded video. It’s just a false sense of security to users when th…

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Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

> https://imgur.com/a/2Lt4Xln

Remind me what this does again? :\

I suggest eliminating that spammish repetition. Body text like this gives a strong impression that the site is going to try to install a virus on my computer. It drips with a swampy kind of SEO desperation only seen on pages that embed malware and crosslink to bot farms.

Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Post by Retr0id »

Retr0id wrote: post #23
londons_explore wrote: post #10

I'm sure this is a feature of the browser... Just right click the video and "save as" and it'll give you a .mp4 file right? Or just Ctrl+C to copy the video onto the clipboard. Oh wait, we let commercial interests take that functionality from us...

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.

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.

Re: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader

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Post by Equal46 »

Retr0id wrote: post #14

Am I missing something, or are you just concatenating the MPEG-TS segments and slapping an .mp4 file extension on the end? This is not an MP4 file, and won't play in anything that expects .mp4 files to be MP4 files. (It'll still work in a surprising number of places because most players ignore the file extension and sniff the content anyway) To make this work properly, you need to mux it into an mp4 container. e.g. f…

Clearly, he based it on the open-source code from GitHub, which simply concatenates the MPEG-TS segments and adds an .mp4 file extension at the end. You can check out my previous work on a download site for the Bluesky platform at https://blueskyvideodownload.com, which runs smoothly and returns the correct video.
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