Downloading Panopto videos
To download a video hosted on
Panopto, such as a class
lecture, you can take the following steps in the
Firefox web
browser:
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Right-click on the video in Panoptoo—you may need to click on the small
video in the upper, left-hand side of the window rather than the one on the
right side of the window—and select "Inspect Element (Q)."
In the "Search HTML" field, type
.mp4 and hit
Enter—this presumes the video is an
MP4 video.
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You should see the area in the HTML code where the MP4 file is referenced
highlighted.
Right-click on the highlighted area and choose "Copy" then "Outer HTML."
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Then paste the information copied into the clipboard into
Microsoft Notepad or some other text editor, depending on your operating
system and preferred editor. You should see the
URL for the
video listed in the content pasted into the editor. Copy the URL starting with
the "https" up through the ".mp4"—don't copy the information after
the ".mp4."
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Paste the copied URL into a browser tab. You can then right-click on the
video in that browser tab and select "Save Video As" to download the video
to your local system. You can give the video a more meaningful name than
the long string of
hexadecimal
digits used for the name.
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At 11:55 AM EDT this morning, my wife received a recorded call stating our
electricity would be cut off by Delmarva Power, our electric utility, in
thirty minutes. She called for me to pick up the phone, but by the time I got
to a phone in another room, the call was disconnected. She said the message
had instructed her to hit "1" to speak to someone. The call sounded like a
scam to me, since I didn't know of any issue with our electicity payments and
also because I would have expected a letter well before a cutoff date and
more than 30 minutes to pay any past due payment if someone called. It seemed
to me an obvious attempt to panic a called party into providing a credit card
to a scammer engaged in fraud, but I checked our bank account anyway and saw
the last payment due had been deducted from our checking account about two
weeks before the call and when I logged into Delmarva's website to check the
status of our account, I saw the last payment credited and a balance of zero
dollars.
Using *69, I was able to determine the listed calling number was
1-443-739-1747, but a search online for accounts of others receiving a call
from a scammer using that number did not reveal other such activity. I called
the number back to see how the scammer operated or to see if it might be
a spoofed number, but just got a recorded message that the called party
was not available, so I should leave a message. It sounded like a generic
voicemail message. So, perhaps, the scammer spoofed the calling number
as they often do to make it difficult to track down their identity.
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