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The UX for saving and sharing videos is the same as for images, including right click to save. You and I don't get that UX, though, because Twitter, Google, Fac
by twhb 7y ago
The UX for saving and sharing videos is the same as for images, including right click to save. You and I don't get that UX, though, because Twitter, Google, Facebook, Netflix, and most websites write code to fight off-site sharing and deploy it on their videos but not their images. They skip images presumably because it's easier to bypass there and because everybody knows you're user-hostile when you break image UX, whereas when you break video UX even HN users blame the browser or operating system.
So it's worse than a UX problem, it's a social problem.
Maybe as-easy-as-screenshots screen recording would go a long way toward solving it, but we've been beat to it: big tech has bent kernels, operating systems, browsers, and even most nations around the world into collaborating to refuse to take moving screenshots of video files, under the label of DRM.
So maybe the root of it all is just timing. Images were added to the web when the web was just a tool, so everybody knew what they were before big tech could set an expectations like that moving an image from memory to disk isn't a normal feature, or that wanting to is controversial, or that doing it might be illegal. Video, though, came at a time when there were big players that knew the stakes and were ready.
- ryanwhitney 7y ago> The UX for saving and sharing videos is the same as for images… Minus drag and drop, in browsers at least.
- soulofmischief 7y agoThis comment reminded me of Terry Davis, because that's exactly the kind of feature he would have deemed essential in a browser if he'd ever decided to add networking to TempleOS. RIP brother. Videos really should be first-class entities, though. Imagine an OS/browser-level ffmpeg implementation which would allow seamless copy/paste of videos, integrated snipping tools both for cropping and time, color adjustment, etc. with automatic imgur-style hosting of your newly edited video just a button-click away.
- yrro 7y agoThe dream of QuickTime back in the 90s
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- the8472 7y ago> including right click to save This only works for video tags that load a single webm/mp4 file. If it's using more complex chunked/streaming/mediasource delivery mode then you can't save the whole video because it's driven by javascript that might only keep a tiny slice of it loaded at any given time and not a single downloadable file. It also auto-negotiate quality and serve you a reduced version, which is probably not what you would want if you're downloading it. Then you need browser addons or tools like youtube-dl to get the whole thing.