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What are my options to record a video playing in a web browser to a disk file (mp4) for later off-line viewing?
I have used the PasLibVlc package earlier for playing videos in my application but now I need to go the other way to record a video (with audio) which is playing inside Crome or FireFox (on Windows 10).
What are my options?
I have read Michael's doc: Displaying video files using Free Pascal and Lazarus
but it is the oether way artound...
What are my options to record a video playing in a web browser to a disk
file (mp4) for later off-line viewing?
Browser extension, but they can communicate with a native app. Take a look at Video DownloadHelper, they have both Chrome extension and a native downloader. I haven't checked how the extension communicates with the native downloader, though, but I suspect the extension is small enough to be examined.
Well, that was my first attempt..
But when I look in the VideoDownloadHelper extension settings I find a gazillion small parts of the video (ranging from a few to a few tenths of kb only) so that it is nearly impossible to use. That is why I am going for a Lazarus/Fpc solution to download the video.
My video editor uses PasLibVlc to plug into VLC and it works fine for playing a video in my viewer, even from a website. But it relies on the URL to contain a file name...
This is not the case mostly.
And I also want to use my new application to record actions within the window such as mouse arrow movements and selections etc. Basically making a tutorial using the new application.
It must result in an mp4 complete file (video and audio).