Fill the laptop before the aeroplane door closes
Aeroplane wifi is dreadful, tunnels are worse, and hotel connections are a lottery. Queue the evening before and the flight looks after itself.
Why this is annoying today
Streaming apps expire your downloads
Offline mode on most services quietly removes titles after a fixed window, usually while you are somewhere with no signal.
One at a time is a waste of an evening
Saving a watchlist by hand means sitting there feeding links in one after another.
Mobile data disappears fast
Downloading on the move burns an allowance you wanted for maps and messages.
How it goes with Boo
Collect your links
Copy anything you fancy watching into a note as you come across it.
Paste the lot
One per line, from as many different sites as you like.
Pick a quality
1080p is usually plenty for a laptop screen and saves a lot of disk.
Let it run
Five at a time while you pack. Files land in your folder, ready to go.
The bits that matter here
No expiry, ever
Files on your disk are yours. Nothing phones home to revoke them mid-flight.
A whole watchlist at once
Paste fifty links and walk away.
Audio for the journey
Pull talks and long-form audio as MP3 and let the screen stay off.
Questions
Will the files still play with no internet?
Yes. They are ordinary MP4 or MP3 files on your disk and any player will open them.
How much space should I set aside?
Roughly 1GB per hour at 1080p, considerably more at 4K. For a flight, 1080p is usually the sensible trade.
Other ways people use it
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No account, no card, no expiry. Windows 10 and 11.