I suppose that makes sense given that information is encoded as a series of key frames interspersed by 'I-frames" that simply encode the delta to the previous key-frame when using most compressed video algorithms. So cutting in-between key-frames doesn’t really make sense since the I-frame would no longer have anything to reference it’s delta to.

I mean what you are describing sounds like an exact match for oscilloscope current probes : https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/understanding-selecting-effectively-using-current-probes They are expensive, but convert AC and DC current to a voltage range reasonable for a scope and do so in an isolated manner. Bandwidth is basically as much as you are willing to pay for.

For current shunts there is the EEVblog uCurrent but it’s not isolated, just a very low burden voltage shunt and amplifier essentially> https://www.eevblog.com/projects/ucurrent/

It’s worth noting that the job of auto-mounting a removable drive is often hidden behind the popular file managers, if you want to do it without one you are probably looking for the “udiskie” application that does this in a more agonistic/generic sense. https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie. With that running in the background to automount, then you can just access the drives from their auto mountpoints in the default location of /run/media/username/drive_label