Once upon a time, I thought I saw a guide where yt-dlp can work with CR but for the life of me I can’t find it. Does anyone know if it still works? I have a premium subscription and would like to make sure I still have access to some of my favorite shows should I move out of country.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    191·
    25 days ago

    Yt-dlp doesn’t deal with cracking, but by fetching the files from DRM-free endpoints of a given service. And from what I’ve seen in issues from both yt-dlp and Grayjay, such endpoints were all removed in recent months for Crunchyroll (and by extensions, neither support downloading from Crunchyroll anymore).

    • ramble81@ani.socialOPEnglish
      6·
      25 days ago

      That explains it. And I’m also guessing that no one has figured out the holy grail of removing the DRM from a legit stream short of screen capturing?

      • tfowinder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        19·
        25 days ago

        People in scene know methods to decrypt the DRM keys, that’s how we get all those webrips but it’s a well kept secret

        • ramble81@ani.socialOPEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          So I actually dug into it and got it working! It’s a bit of a rabbit hole to extract the needed keys.

          • tfowinder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            That is so cool!!

            I went down the rabbit hole a few years ago and couldn’t find anything, ended up wasting my time.

            Mind sharing resources in DM? You can just drop me some nuggets I can figure out rest myself.

            Don’t post publically, don’t want it to be patched out.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    25 days ago

    IIRC Crunchyroll used to be a pirate site so that may be where you heard that? But they’ve been legit for years.

    I would say just look for x265 (HEVC) webrips of your favorite content and throw it on a Plex (or Jellyfin if you don’t have any Apple stuff) server. On the flip, if you have all Apple tech, Infuse is a good option, but IIRC it doesn’t stream outside your network like the other two do.

    • ramble81@ani.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      I have premium and I just prefer to pull straight from the source rather than getting a rip someone else did. It lets me customize the highest quality I want. I’ve used Zotify and usually rip straight from BDs normally too, but it sounds like I might just have to find the webrips like you said.