Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

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798 points bertman | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.243s | source

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everdrive ◴[12 Nov 25 13:31 UTC] No.45899905[source]▶

Perhaps a stupid question, but is there some reason I can't potentially fall back to recording my screen / audio in realtime and saving videos that way? yt-dlp is obviously far superior to this, but just thinking about what my fallback points are.

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matsemann ◴[12 Nov 25 13:35 UTC] No.45899953[source]▶

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With browser's and hardware's support for DRM they could make it impossible if they want to. Basically the OS / recording software sees a blank screen.

I was on live TV recently and wanted to keep a recording for myself, that wasn't just filming the screen with my phone. I first tried screen recording watching the show in my browser in their streaming service. Got a black video. Then I tried their phone app, got a black video. Finally, using my phone but the web page they enabled playback without DRM and I could record and store it. When more devices support DRM they will probably get rid of that fallback as well.

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1. Maskawanian ◴[12 Nov 25 15:35 UTC] No.45901449[source]▶

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There is always the analog hole. Even HDCP can be worked around. Even if they do manage to stop all computers from doing direct bit copies, there are still old things such as Kinescopes which they used to use to broadcast television from film. There of course is a quality loss, but that's kind of irrelevant to the point.

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