Turn off line wrapping to see the file as it really is. If it gets really confusing, just open the attached manifest in your text editor & follow along there. I'm also showing this text with altered colors because I can't figure out how to tell Google to treat this as code or something like that to make it scroll horizontally. I just want you to understand that some of this text is broken into lines that aren't really lines in the manifest. I have attached the Master Manifest as a file so you can see what it really looks like. So I've inserted something to indicate where the lines really begin & end. The lines are long but I can't figure out how to stop Google from splitting & wrapping the lines. Here is the manifest I got by double clicking that entry in the Network Monitor. You see, a manifest is just a plain text file.
I happen to use Notepad++ but there are others. I'm talking about Notepad or a replacement for it. You do whatever you need to do on your system to get the manifest to display in your text editor. I have long ago gone through the exercise of setting my text editor as the default handler for objects of type m3u8. This normally brings up a Firefox dialog offering to display or save or otherwise handle the file. With the filter field empty, the Network Monitor would fill up with all kinds of stuff over time. Also notice the string m3u8 slyly buried in the middle of all that. You have to hover the mouse over the item in the Network Monitor to see the complete URL. The Network Monitor shows only the last part of the URL.
Note how the complete URL in the hover text includes the string shown in the Network Monitor. Don't play the video, just pop up the context menu. To isolate just the video I want, click mouse button 2 (MB2) on the video. If you have a better way, do feel free to post about it in this thread. It may not be the best way, but like I say, I'm not a member of Twitter so this is what I've discovered. But depending on how far down the Twitter page your selected video might be, it could be like searching for a needle in a haystack to find it on the VDH menu. Truth in advertising, it does appear further down the VDH menu. But you'll notice that I've also scrolled the VDH menu & there isn't an entry for the one in the image, the one that's just 16 seconds long. I've scrolled down to one that is nice & short. Twitter pages tend to have many videos on them. What I'm showing here is something that can apply to many other web sites as well. But I chose Twitter because many people have had trouble getting videos off Twitter.
I am not a member of Twitter (or any social media site, for that matter) so being logged on there is not an issue.
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