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hi, this may be exactly what I am looking for if ... I don't want to send the video via email, I want to save it in one of the usual formats to my disc, is this supported? Right now your extension returns "Error 503 Connection timed out", I am sure it will be fine shortly, I just wanted to ask.

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Hi - sorry to hear you've hit some difficulties! support[at]viewedit[dot]com should definitely be able to help!

At this point, download isn't supported. It's something we may do in the future, but for now the hope is that the built in sharing makes download obsolete. Would love to hear areas where DL is important - feedback[at]viewedit[dot]com

Thanks!

When you apply to YC they ask for an unlisted YouTube video :)

> but for now the hope is that the built in sharing makes download obsolete. Would love to hear areas where DL is important

Just in general: Murphy's law. At the worst possible time, the ISP will be down, the wifi adapter will drop its connection, you'll exceed your data plan, or you'll be at the customer's place who's weird about outside machines on their network.

"Stuff happens". More options are always better, even if you hope you never have to use them.

ffmpeg might be helpful in your use case: ffmpeg.exe ‐f gdigrab ‐i desktop ‐framerate 30 ‐vcodec libx264 ‐preset ultrafast new‐output‐video‐file.mkv

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