On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 21:30 Bret Busby wrote:
> 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.
If you want to retain a copy of a video for later reference, I recommend OBS
Studio to capture video and audio of what is being played. That way you could
capture the subtitles as well.
>
> 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.
>
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
>
>
