What’s the show?
Top Gear UK seasons 1-22
Dropping the name of the show early in the conversation works better.
This show is readily available in torrents, where the community has curated from the highest quality sources available.
Do you have a GPU. Use its software to screen record.
Usually DRM detects the obvious stuff/access like OBS/Nvidia Shadow Play and either kills the recording or you have a black window.
There are ways if you know what your doing
—Hey, how do I do this?
—Well, you need to know how to do it and then do it
Are you asking how to torrent something, or how to rip it from the Amazon stream directly?
Ripping. I’ve searched the sidebar for guides but nothing jumps out to me. I’m sure I could find it eventually, but I don’t necessarily want to waste a couple hours browsing if someone knows where to look off the top of their head already. Any help is appreciated obviously!
There’s probably a better way, but you could go for a low-brow approach: use a screen recorder on your PC and let the video play. Then you trim the recording and encode it to your format of choice.
DRM prevents that. Your graphics drivers will refuse to release the video info to the screen capture software leaving you with an empty black rectangle in the video. Otherwise a lot more people would do this.
You might be able to use either a capture card to grab the actual video signal being output by the machine; or a VM with the capture software running outside it on the host. I’ve never tried the latter, but I’m told it works.
Sounds like such a block would be highly dependant on a specific recorder + driver combo. In the name of science I’ll do some experimentation tonight.
UPDATE: Worked just fine for me.
Netflix running Bojack Horseman in Firefox under Linux Mint, stock NVIDIA 550 driver, and replay-magic as screen recorder.
You might have more luck with an AMD card, but Nvidia works closely with these DRM companies. It’s baked into the graphics drivers that you can only get from Nvidia. Doesn’t matter what recording software you use, they ALL have to go through the graphics drivers which will not release the video stream to them.
Without cracked drivers; you’re SOL going down that route.
Turning off hardware acceleration helps, at least in Firefox.
On your update:
Ah, Linux. Forgot about that variable. Interesting to see you didn’t have to mess with it much, that used to be a hassle though doable.
Linux gives you a bit more freedom to get around these blocks; so to counter this Netflix and many other streaming providers limit the resolution and bitrate available to Linux clients. Often they won’t serve better than 720p to any linix client if I remember right, even with you paying the premium for 4k content.
Some people may be fine with that, others not so much. Louis Rossman made quite a fuss about that a while back.
Some people may be fine with that, others not so much. Louis Rossman made quite a fuss about that a while back.
Rightly so. OS shouldn’t matter one bit. If the customer is paying for a service, then that service should be rendered as paid for, or else it should be discounted.
I know I know… One can dream.
Someone has already uploaded it to a tracker. So you’re just asking to torrent
I’ve checked and that’s not true of the public trackers I use.
Sonarr takes care of it
While I haven’t tried this myself; I’ve been told streaming to a web browser that’s running in a VM will let you screen record the VM from the host machine.
If you try to just screen record the browser directly with screen cap software; the DRM + graphics drivers will prevent the recording from seeing the video, it’ll just show as an empty black rectangle. Supposedly this doesn’t work against a VM displayed to its host though.
If it’s for preservation they should probably look into tape or optical storage. Realistically your friend is not doing it for preservation considering that there are way better equipped individuals and organisations for that (the BBC for example).
I really don’t get why people have started to say that they only do it for preservation like they run a museum or an archive. Come on man, that movie is available literally everything and your hard drive will fuck up the storage of the files long before humanity losses access to that movie.
I download movies because I like free movies.
Preservation is extremely relevant for streaming services, because you don’t own anything. Sure, that movie or show is there today, but the streaming service could decide to take it down tomorrow, and then it’s gone. Maybe forever. Corporations have no interest in preservation, unless it makes them money. And sometimes, oddly, not even then.
There can also be weird issues with copyrights or something like that. Take the example of old Beavis & Butt-Head episodes. MTV had to cut out the music videos, because they no longer held the rights to show them anymore. There are episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 like this. They had permission to show that movie at the time the episode was made, but they don’t hold those rights anymore, so they can’t offer that episode for streaming.
