plankton

device and OS please

got some suggestions already

https://programming.dev/post/22598082

TLDR: what tool will let a casual user to input a URL (to a disguised .m3u8 file) and get a .mp4?

Backstory, our school uses Panopto to record lectures. The web interface is crap, but I found a project that lets you download the video files as .mp4

https://programming.dev/post/21072323

that is until 2 weeks ago when Panopto started exporting the files as

• 1 large .panobf1 file
• 2 small .panobf2 files, a few bytes each

I can swap the file extension for the .panobf1 file to .mp4. This is enough 90% of the time. However, since this is the file with the classroom camera overlaid on the slides, it blocks the content in the corner.

Investigating the .panobf2 files:

❯ file master.panobf2
master.panobf2: M3U playlist, ASCII text

I ran this command on each .panobf2 file to download the classroom stream and slides stream as separate mp4 files.

ffmpeg -i <file-url> -c copy video.mp4

It's finals season and I want to make a new post to help people out. CLI isn't for everyone, so I'm looking for a tool instead

and I'm a part of that problem

"When you're listening to music and you turn up the volume using the knob on your mechanical keyboard"

"DEEJAY"

Link: https://github.com/Panopto-Video-DL/Panopto-Video-DL-browser?tab=readme-ov-file

Instructions:

1. Install the TamperMonkey browser extension if you don't have it already

   • Firefox
   • Chrome

2. Install this script from GreasyFork

3. Open a lecture on Panopto, look for this button in the bottom right:

4. A video will open. Download it with ctrl+S

5. watch the lecture offline without having to deal with panopto's bs

Use the videos for yourself, don't upload them anywhere else. UBC will get yo ass if you do

I held my breath as long as I could

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