On rare occasion I’ve wanted to download videos for instance that the University of Minnesota posts. Get the video playing, then inspect the code within Safari (press command-option-U). Next select the “Network” tab, search for “master.m3u8” and select it. The righthand pane will show a preview of the code, right-click and copy the video’s link. Download the video using VLC->File-Convert / Stream. I left the defaults and downloaded the video as a .ts file. Now to convert that into a format that is smaller…