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.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If you can see it, you can record it.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

That is like saying the cinema camrip is totally sufficient even if I want a 4K release.
This is the reason there a separate releases for web-rip and web-dl.
Because DL is generally superior.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago

Certainly; the hard part is getting high quality captures from high quality sources.

Some people are happy to watch CAM-rips, others won't settle for less than full quality blu-rays.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.