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Thanks for sharing, that was enormously intriguing. Do you have a bigger write-up on this? I'd love to read it.

by Grimblewald 3y ago

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EMIRELADERO 3y ago
https://github.com/movie-web https://github.com/movie-web covers this quite well
- notso411 3y ago
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- cosmojg 3y ago
  Oh wow, this is quite practical! Thanks for sharing! In the past, I've typically relied on a great deal of google-fu and considerable time investment (~10 minutes! *gasp*) whenever I couldn't find a show on one of the big streaming services, and it seems like the backend sources made available by the movie-web extension are a superset of those used by the various shady and ephemeral middleman-of-the-month streaming websites I would typically land on. It's also quite nice how they've neatly open-sourced and atomized all the little tools that go into making the service work such that one could, in theory, build other services on top of these tools. The quality of the documentation is outstanding, too.
  - EMIRELADERO 3y ago
    > It's also quite nice how they've neatly open-sourced and atomized all the little tools that go into making the service work such that one could, in theory, build other services on top of these tools. The quality of the documentation is outstanding, too. Astonishing is the right word. It's like "neat sparkling new JS-based startup" meets "mid-2000s underground piracy", and I can't get enough of it.
Retr0id 3y ago
I wrote a twitter thread about doing a similar trick with twitter's image CDN: https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1587978423120666625 https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1587978423120666625 Unfortunately I'm unable to access twitter threads now so ymmv - I think it still works. The TL;DR is that the playlist metadata file (mpd or m3u8) references multiple fragments, and arbitrary file offsets within those fragments. Slice your video into fragments (using standard video processing tools), embed them into PNGs using standard twitter-compatible file format polyglot tricks, and upload them to twitter.

Thanks for sharing, that was enormously intriguing. Do you have a bigger write-up on this? I'd love to read it.

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EMIRELADERO 3y ago

https://github.com/movie-web https://github.com/movie-web covers this quite well

notso411 3y ago
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cosmojg 3y ago
Oh wow, this is quite practical! Thanks for sharing! In the past, I've typically relied on a great deal of google-fu and considerable time investment (~10 minutes! *gasp*) whenever I couldn't find a show on one of the big streaming services, and it seems like the backend sources made available by the movie-web extension are a superset of those used by the various shady and ephemeral middleman-of-the-month streaming websites I would typically land on. It's also quite nice how they've neatly open-sourced and atomized all the little tools that go into making the service work such that one could, in theory, build other services on top of these tools. The quality of the documentation is outstanding, too.
- EMIRELADERO 3y ago
  > It's also quite nice how they've neatly open-sourced and atomized all the little tools that go into making the service work such that one could, in theory, build other services on top of these tools. The quality of the documentation is outstanding, too. Astonishing is the right word. It's like "neat sparkling new JS-based startup" meets "mid-2000s underground piracy", and I can't get enough of it.

Retr0id 3y ago

I wrote a twitter thread about doing a similar trick with twitter's image CDN: https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1587978423120666625 https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1587978423120666625 Unfortunately I'm unable to access twitter threads now so ymmv - I think it still works. The TL;DR is that the playlist metadata file (mpd or m3u8) references multiple fragments, and arbitrary file offsets within those fragments. Slice your video into fragments (using standard video processing tools), embed them into PNGs using standard twitter-compatible file format polyglot tricks, and upload them to twitter.