Can anyone figure out this video?

[Xist]

I would like to share this video: https://abc7.com/video/embed/?pid=3097283, but I cannot figure out what filetype it is, let alone figure out how to share it aside from just the URL. I found a few videos on YouTube, but apparently not only was the filmer loud and intolerable, but she also filmed in portrait, and I have had mixed results cropping video. I found another that has it in landscape, but they superimposed other video clips that I do not want.

Do you guys have any idea?

Thanks!

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Xist

Do you guys have any idea?

I was reluctant to click on some random link, but I did craft a search string for DDG that goes [inurl:https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo abc7.com] and looked at the statistics.

At Alexa (not that Alexa, the other one. No the Other other one) I find

Top Keywords from Search Engines
Which search keywords send traffic to this site?

Keyword Percent of Search Traffic
1. holy fire 2.67%
2. fur-ternity leave minnesota 2.00%
3. hard summer festival hospitalized 1.31%
4. teacher ma'am 1.07%
5. holy fire update 0.97%

and

Upstream Sites
Which sites did people visit immediately before this site?

Site Percent of Unique Visits
1. google.com 37.9%
2. reddit.com 11.2%
3. facebook.com 7.0%
4. t.co 3.4%
5. youtube.com 2.1%

None of which is to the point. If you choose to visit that site in a browser like Opera, you can right-click on the video and choose inspect element. You're on your own from there.

Alternatively, save locally and open the file in VLC (Video LAN Client). Choose File/Streaming/Exporting Wizard and see what file type it defaults to.

[Xist]

I inspected the video here: https://abc7.com/traffic/video-road-...-side/3096930/

As far as I got was that video. When I right-click and inspect element I do not recognize anything important. I see many references to one or more m3u8 files, which also link to one or more m3u8 files.

[freebeard]

Road rage, huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

https://www.lifewire.com/m3u8-file-2621956

An M3U8 file is a UTF-8 Encoded Audio Playlist file. Learn how to open an .M3U8 file or convert an M3U8 file to M3U or XSPF.

[Xist]

I opened it in notepad. Where is the video itself?!

[freebeard]

It's in the cloud. Welcome to your future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb "to stream" refers to the process of delivering or obtaining media in this manner;[clarification needed] the term refers to the delivery method of the medium, rather than the medium itself, and is an alternative to file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains the entire file for the content before watching or listening to it.

It's similar to Usenet where you could view [porn] files without downloading to your machine.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Usenet

I have not heard that name in a very long time. Apparently I never visited it.

[freebeard]

'The first rule about Usenet is you don't talk about Usenet' was ripped off by Fight Club. Then Fight Club was ripped off by Rules of Internet from 4chan.

[Xist]

I found a gif!

[Stubby79]

Firestone!