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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] NTchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is only true for weaker levels of widevine. The highest tiers of widevine security won't release the content to a Linux system at all because it cannot encrypt the entire chain, for exactly this reason. Netflix and Amazon currently support the weaker methods, but Disney+ already requires the more restrictive implementation. It's only a matter of time before others follow suit

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