A Bookmarklet (Favelet) for your browser to simply download lectures from a 'Mediasite' website, that is often used by colleges and universities.
Go to this website and drag & drop the button onto your browsers Bookmarks Bar.
Works best with Google Chrome.
- (Mobile devices are not supported)
- Drag this button onto your browsers Bookmarks Bar
- Open a Mediasite lecture
- Click on Bookmarklet
- A dialog will pop up: Copy the title of the lecture, right-click on the link, "Save as..." and paste in the copied title to rename the file
- Download begins
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Slides are not downloaded.
This script can only download video files that are available in MP4 format. By default Mediasite is taking a "screenshot" every few seconds and stores literally hundreds of images during a lecture. Due to limitiations these images can't be converted into a video stream. However, your lecturer/Mediasite operator can change this setting to have two separate video streams - one for the camera and one for the slides - so you may ask them :)
If a Vodcast is available, you can also download it with this script. A Vodcast is one video file that combines multiple sources, like different cameras and slides. Unfortunately, these Vodcasts are pretty rare, although they are the best solution if you want to store files locally IMHO. -
Firefox: Video is opening in browser instead of downloading it.
Due to security reasons it's not possible to download files from cross-origins. You have to download it manually via right-click, "Save as...". -
Downloaded file has a long and weird name.
Because cross-origin downloads are not allowed, it's not possible to use thea.downloadtag to rename downloaded files.
This project is in no way affiliated with, authorized, maintained, sponsored or endorsed by Sonic Foundry Inc. or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. This is an independent project. Use at your own risk.