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One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb. They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from
by Crazyontap 5y ago
One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb.
They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D
- benbristow 5y agoIf you try and screenshot or use something like OBS on Windows you just get a black box on top of the media content. Is that not the case using that solution?
- marcan_42 5y agoThere is no protected media path on Linux. It always works there.
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- easton 5y agoWhich is why you get the 480p/720p low bitrate version instead of the 4K one on Netflix/Disney+.
- serf 5y agono, it's the motivation, not the reason. the reason why linux users get lower bitrate versions of media is that companies with a bit too much power decided to try to abuse the entirety of the PC world in order to slow the efforts of a very few pirates. it's a stupid untenable unwinnable arms-race that only results in poorer user experience and less and less user-liberty and choice across the board in order to slightly inconvenience a few bad actors, not stop them. Meanwhile a 10 dollar video dongle setup and a pirated Windows copy will easily meet most DRM requirements and still allow for easy piracy. These efforts (DRM schemes) are useless and anti-human, and most research from the 90s until now indicates that DRM enforcement does little for profit except for those that sell DRM solutions -- and that piracy increases social effect of released media; generally aiding sales and profitability.
- behringer 5y agodrm is not to control piracy but to control legitimate ownership.
- tshaddox 5y agoIt’s actually to control the manufacturers of legitimate hardware and software involved in playing back media. They know that anyone who wants to can pirate their stuff, and they’re not going to go after them. But legit companies can’t just sell HDMI splitters, capture cards, etc. that strip DRM.
- shmerl 5y agoDRM is to control, that's about it. Whether it's ownership or whatever is already irrelevant. For example DRM can be used to control the market (as an anti-competitive measure). In practice, DRM never has a good reason.
- agumonkey 5y agoI'm so fine with 480p
- throwawayboise 5y agoAgreed. I often don't get more than this from streaming services, due to bandwidth congestion.
- agumonkey 5y agoI'm not the happiest of dudes, that's for context, but I have this feeling that people are hiding something.. binging tv shows all the time, new video games all the time, waiting for the new console. It seems like a neverending chase of new shallow fun they don't even really like. Maybe simpler but deeper moments would improve things.
- agumonkey 5y agoWoops wrong reply.
- jimmydorry 5y agoI only get the 720p regardless on my Win10 PC
- madacol 5y agoHow do they know you are using linux?, user-agent is easy to mask
- easton 5y agoWhen they can't communicate with the "secured execution environment" they fall back to the lower quality stream. It requires some stuff on the OS level to make it work which Linux doesn't have (or at least, Linux browsers don't support properly outside of Chrome OS).
- tomrod 5y agoThis is why Peacock blocks Linux wholesale, I suspect.
- dreadlordbone 5y agoHDMI splitter to a capture card solves this as well.
- tshaddox 5y agoThis only works if either the splitter or the capture card removes HDCP, right?
- deanc 5y agoFor Sky (satellite tv) in the UK you have an online version. As soon as you even open the screenshot app it closes the stream. If you try and airplay to your tv from laptop, it overlays a big grey box. It’s anti consumer at this point. Anyone who wants to capture and redistribute is ultimately going to find a way.
- lazylion2 5y agoJust tested on Windows 10 / Firefox, screenshots(prtscn) and OBS work fine
- vopi 5y agoBut services limit quality on Linux (due to not having a high-enough DRM level).
- IntelMiner 5y agoI remember when "The Grand Tour" premiered on Amazon Prime The quality was locked to an eye watering...360P! On Windows 10 with a modern HDCP compliant display and GPU no less! Is it still "piracy" if you pay for the service, but torrent the video in question in higher quality?
- Skunkleton 5y ago> Is it still "piracy" if you pay for the service, but torrent the video in question in higher quality? Of course it is. Whenever you have these question, just ask what you think a mustache twirling characture of a villain would do and you will have your answer.
- markovbot 5y agoand then remember that's the one you're paying and consider why you do the paying part in the first place
- Skunkleton 5y agoAye matey
- dartharva 5y agoCan it not work with WSL on Windows?
- diogenesjunior 5y agocould you perhaps give a short guide on how this is done? i have plenty of programming experience but simply have never tried my hand at this. a linux solution would be nice
- slacka 5y agoDoes that work on Wayland or just x11? Doesn't the Widevine plugin prevent basic screen captures of its content?
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- tomc1985 5y agoRecompressing an uncompressed version of a compressed video signal is hell on quaaliy
- hansel_der 5y agobut it's more than good enough, especially for ppl that grew up with VHS/VGA
- antman 5y agoVery easy to customise script xvfb browser recording here: https://github.com/grayleonard/xvfb-record https://github.com/grayleonard/xvfb-record