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 4 months ago (10 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.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 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 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Turning off hardware acceleration helps, at least in Firefox.

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