How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

Scooby Doo · 2023-08-31 00:38:40

Hi, I would like to know how to enable the following video streaming options:
*Save video as...
*Open video in new tab
*Copy video address

By default the three options above are greyed out (disabled.)
I am looking to save live streaming videos, the closest method I have found is the "Cococut" browser addon.

My vivaldi is up-to-date.
I am using Arch Linux (if it matters.)
Thanks, Dave.

Last edited by Scooby Doo (2023-08-31 00:52:15)

seth · 2023-08-31 06:54:33

You should probably stress in the subject that this is about vivaldi and point which porn video you want to download, "saving" live streams in particular is often not a thing, since there's no static source.
But I'd look into specialized tool like yt-dlp (--live-from-start) instead of random browser functions/addons.

Scooby Doo · 2023-08-31 12:59:41

@seth I am not looking to download porn, I can do that without vivaldi.
What I am looking to do is download live sports streams as an mp4/mkv file.

seth · 2023-08-31 13:03:07

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

It doesn't matter what content you're trying to download, the problem is the same - live streams often have no static source to fetch.
Since you're stressing vivaldi, is this about widevine, ie. some drm "protected" stream?

Scooby Doo · 2023-08-31 13:21:15

seth wrote:

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
It doesn't matter what content you're trying to download, the problem is the same - live streams often have no static source to fetch.
Since you're stressing vivaldi, is this about widevine, ie. some drm "protected" stream?

Yup.

seth · 2023-08-31 13:31:10

And you wonder why any kind of in-browser saving is disabled…
Search for widevine stream rippers, this isn't "oh, I just forgot this setting to enable a menu item" - and we're close to violating the forum rules with this thread.

Scooby Doo · 2023-08-31 14:33:50

seth wrote:

Search for widevine stream rippers

Thanks, I'll do just that.

sekret · 2023-09-01 09:13:52

I sometimes save concert streams, just recently Wacken Open Air in Germany.

To do that you have to launch the developer options and within this the Network tab. At least in firefox.

Then you see those ~5 seconds long *.ts files. If their url just changes by numbers counting up, it's easy to write a script to download them. Then afterwards a simple cat *.ts > video.ts puts them together for further editing.

But sometimes it's more difficult. I've saved ~15 live streams that way in the past years and only once I failed, because they made it more difficult somehow (I cannot remember what platform this was)

seth · 2023-09-01 11:09:04

That's rather not gonna work w/ widevine protected streams (but the generic downloader in yt-dlp might have done that for you)

Arch Linux

#1 2023-08-31 00:38:40

How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#2 2023-08-31 06:54:33

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#3 2023-08-31 12:59:41

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#4 2023-08-31 13:03:07

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#5 2023-08-31 13:21:15

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#6 2023-08-31 13:31:10

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#7 2023-08-31 14:33:50

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#8 2023-09-01 09:13:52

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

#9 2023-09-01 11:09:04

Re: How to enable right click video options like "save video as..." etc

Board footer