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Comment by gregsadetsky

As many have figured out, these are pre-generated mp4 files. There's no 'magic' in the video files themselves (i.e. the video is not generated on the fly)

In https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/a...

The client side generates an unobfuscated string such as:

red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i

where 1435 is the current local time (search for `key: "teaserSrcProps"` in the code to find the relevant function)

Then "17" is prepended to that string ("BOND_OBFUSCATION_SALT" in the source code), and then the video file name is simply the MD5 of the string.

To find the video URL:

    // change 1435 for any HHMM time
    timeStr = "red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i"
    videoFile = MD5("17" + timeStr) + ".mp4"
    url = "https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/" + videoFile
:-)

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All 1440 red pill video URLs (tested all of them in bulk without downloading any using `wget --spider -i allurls.txt` — spider is a cool option!):

https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/cb4754d123f0ea1eae26820...

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