On 31/1/25 16:24, George at Clug wrote:
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.
In answer to 2 and the unnumbered question, it seems to work (for the
most part) for me.
I have multiple add-ons/plugins installed in Firefox, including for
downloading videos, so, I generally try another one, is I have problems.
The only videos that I watch within the web browser, are some youtube
videos, for the subtitles, as I have a hearing disability, that stops me
from being able to easily hear most people speaking.
Plugins/add-ons exist, for blocking advertising, and for other system
protection,including (but not limited to) Bluhell Firewall, uBlock
Origins, etc, with some such blockers, specific to youtube. I have
multiple of them installed.
I do not have DRM enabled, and, if I see a message displayed saying
something like "You need to have DRM enabled in order to view this
video", I simply work around it, and, use a downloader to overcome it.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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