On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 18:57 Bret Busby wrote:
> On 31/1/25 14:50, George at Clug wrote:
> > Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected Video content?
> >
> > Is it normal for DRM to display lots of ads whenever Firefox is loaded?
> >
> > I did enable DRM once, a long time ago, and I started getting annoying
> > ads whenever Firefox was loaded. It took a while for me to determine it
> > was because of the DRM add-on. The DRM add-on was loaded into the user's
> > file space. I do not know if displaying the ads was normal DRM add-on
> > behavour or whether a malisious web page had replaced the originally
> > downloaded DRM file with a hacked version. My solution at the time was
> > to delete any Firefox folders in my /home/username area (e.g.
> > ~/.mozilla/firefox). DRM was not too important to me, so I now just do
> > not enable DRM.
> >
> > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
> > Firefox for desktop supports the Google Widevine CDM for playing
> > DRM-controlled content.
> > Disabling Google Widevine from the Add-ons Manager prevents it from
> > running on your computer and prevents future updates from downloading.
> >
> > Please reply if you have had any such experiences.
> >
> > George.
> >
> >
> >
>
> As watching video involves downloading the video, why not simply use
> yt-dlp to download the videos, and, watch the videos with your
> preference of video viewer?
Good question !
I have two answers (which might not be good answers, if so someone may be able
to correct me)
1) For some time now yt-dlp has been unable to download videos which I wanted
to download.
2) I only know how to download Youtube videos with yt-dlp, and the videos that
I wanted to watch were not from Youtube.
Question: can yt-dlp download DRM protected videos?
George.
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> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
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