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# GDC Vault videos can't be watched on mobile devices and this is a very sad thing indeed! | |
# (Note: this has changed for GDC2013, which lets you watch raw MP4 streams. Kudos!) | |
# This script is designed to circumvent this by downloading the lecture and slideshow | |
# videos which can then be re-encoded into whatever format you wish. Obviously, you | |
# won't be able to do this without access to the Vault. This is strictly for the | |
# convenience of legitimate Vault users! | |
# Note: this code is rather flimsy and was written as fast as possible for my own personal use. | |
# The code only works for the most recent GDC Vault videos, since they all use the same player | |
# format. If the XML format used to run the player is changed (as it has in the past), the code |
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# GDC Vault videos can't be watched on mobile devices and this is a very sad thing indeed! | |
# This script is designed to circumvent this by downloading the lecture and slideshow | |
# videos which can then be re-encoded into whatever format you wish. | |
# Note: this code is rather flimsy and was written as fast as possible for my own personal use. | |
# The code only works for the most recent GDC Vault videos, since they all use the same player | |
# format. If the XML format used to run the player is changed (as it has in the past), the code | |
# will have to be reconfigured. In the past, I was able to feed a wget-compatible cookies.txt | |
# file into the wget call, but I can't get it to trigger anymore. So for now, the way I download | |
# each video is I look at the source for the player page, find the player.html URL, and feed |