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Old November 24th 17, 08:23 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Firefox: how can I see the little box with out the trash?

T wrote:

Firefox


Doesn't matter. If you had tested in other web browsers, you'd have
seen the same garbaged video.


Chicago Bears vs Green Bay Packers Full Game HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHIuIH9X_VQ

Now this is annoying. Is there an add-on or
other way that will allow me to see just the game
and not the graphics trash on the sides?


I doubt this video consists of 2 separate video streams. Some videos
will have multiple streams but they are consecutive, like showing an ad
stream, showing some of the video, showing another ad (especially if you
attempt to fast forward), and repeat. A stream capture program (e.g.,
Jaksta or Applian Replay Media Capture which is Jaksta in disguise) can
capture the streams separately.

There are screen capture programs that let you choose what section of
the screen to capture. However, if you move the app's window then you
screw up the capture since the capture area is fixed. Also, if you move
the cursor across the are being captured or there is any jerkiness or
pauses in the video playback, yep, those will also show up in the
recorded section of the screen. Applian has their screen capture tool
(Replay Video Capture) but I eventually uninstalled it because too many
artifacts of the screen were getting included in the capture of a video.
That will be symptomatic of any screen capture program, like for
Camstudio (which really sucks).

Since it is like the graphics and game were merged into one video
stream, you would have to edit the captured stream (recorded into a
local file) to cut out just the inset section with the game. The video
editing software would have to let you define what section within the
video for it to cut out and then play the video frame by frame to cut
out just that section of each to pile into another video file.

As a test, I used Applian's Replay Media Capture to snap the video
stream(s) from that page. There was only one stream, not one for the
game and another for the graphics. It's all one video. That the
sections look separate is how your brain interprets the display, just
like when viewing text on the screen is still looking at graphics but
your brain has been taught to recognize some glyphs as characters in
your language.

There is some fuzziness to the game inset portion, especially for quick
movement, but that's because Youtube delivered the entire video stream
as 480p. If I use the settings menu (gear icon) to raise resolution to
720p, the game gets clearer (better focus).

You could add a comment to that Youtube video (after logging in) to see
if you could prod David Perry, the video owner, to upload a non-garbaged
version of the game. Bet he comes back to say he did that to obviate
some copyright law regarding his thievery. His other videos are his
camera pointed at his tablet playing a game. Other of his videos look
just the one you found; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJA88BjsRgQ and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCAz0MZWHAg.

You could try reporting his garbaged thievery by using the 3-dot menu
under the video to report his video as violating Google's TOS. Alas,
only owners of pirated content are allowed to report it to Google (as
the option is to report as "Infringes My Rights"). That means someone
would have to be hunting around looking for thieves of their content to
then report them to the sites hosting the stolen content.
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