How to force a video file to save to disk instead of playing it.
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When I open a link like https://videos.com/abc.mp4 it start to play in browser, but I don't want it to play, I want it to save on my disk!
Sure I can press pause, then press download button and save it, but come on, In old Opera there was a nice MIME type editor where you can control downloads.!
OK I do not demand that editor, but suggest a way for me to control video playback:
vivaldi://chrome/settings/content or regedit or whatever.
Thanks!
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@nicklaich The video that I looked at was an embedded YouTube video.
There are various extensions for download videos. Try a forum search.
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@pesala
The truth is, i do use extensions that allow to download video. But in the final stage (downloading itself) they present a link to the file which i suppose to download. And here i see the video playing in browser instead of "Save as ..." prompt. -
@nicklaich If you click such a link it will play in your default application for MP4 files. If you right-click and save the target as, what happens?
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@pesala
I can assure you, my default application (in windows) for *.mp4 files is MediaPlayerClassic
And I cannot right-click on the link, per se:
I press "download" button in youtube, provided by an extension. The extension itself gets the link to a video file and opens it. -
@nicklaich There's no way, it's not an option on Chromium.
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@an_dz It would work if the extension author alters the mime type to something that does not get opened by default and set the download attribute. Additionally the basic .click() method does not work for it (ran into a similar problem with one of my own extensions) but the long version with creating and firing a synthetic event can be made to work like that (hack) ...
... but you are right, unless it is done like that there is no way to do it.
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