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A friend of mine looking to download episodes of a show available on Amazon Prime video to store on his Jellyfin server for preservation. Is there a guide for this anywhere that they can reference? (midwest.social)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The paid way to do this is is to buy something like Streamfab to download the stream directly from the source. Note for the most part you will be limited to 720p/1080p. Another paid software that used to be around was Redfox AnyStream but they went offline last year.

Only private trackers / scene would know about 2160p / 4K downloads and they're not going to share publicly about their methods.

The free method is to attempt to do the video capture yourself (see earlier comments) rather than download the stream itself.

Of course for the most part tons of content has already been downloaded by others and made available via torrents, DDL, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a GPU. Use its software to screen record.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Usually DRM detects the obvious stuff/access like OBS/Nvidia Shadow Play and either kills the recording or you have a black window.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago

There are plenty of resources linked in the sidebar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is this a request for a guide on setting up torrenting and arrs or cracking Amazing Prime DRM? (=is the show available on the high seas or not)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

trash-guides.info

[–] Darkassassin07 5 points 21 hours ago

While I haven't tried this myself; I've been told streaming to a web browser that's running in a VM will let you screen record the VM from the host machine.

If you try to just screen record the browser directly with screen cap software; the DRM + graphics drivers will prevent the recording from seeing the video, it'll just show as an empty black rectangle. Supposedly this doesn't work against a VM displayed to its host though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Are you asking how to torrent something, or how to rip it from the Amazon stream directly?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Ripping. I've searched the sidebar for guides but nothing jumps out to me. I'm sure I could find it eventually, but I don't necessarily want to waste a couple hours browsing if someone knows where to look off the top of their head already. Any help is appreciated obviously!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Someone has already uploaded it to a tracker. So you’re just asking to torrent

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I've checked and that's not true of the public trackers I use.

[–] ProtonBadger 2 points 16 hours ago

limetorrents.lol or TPB search for "top gear complete"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

What’s the show

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sonarr takes care of it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Assuming the media actually wasn't available (of course top gear is available) on the trackers they use, sonarr wouldn't help. Sonarr still needs to look through trackers/indexers, it just might do it faster.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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 5 points 21 hours ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

If you can see it, you can record it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That is like saying the cinema camrip is totally sufficient even if I want a 4K release.
This is the reason there a separate releases for web-rip and web-dl.
Because DL is generally superior.

[–] Darkassassin07 7 points 18 hours ago

Certainly; the hard part is getting high quality captures from high quality sources.

Some people are happy to watch CAM-rips, others won't settle for less than full quality blu-rays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 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 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

On your update:

Ah, Linux. Forgot about that variable. Interesting to see you didn't have to mess with it much, that used to be a hassle though doable.

Linux gives you a bit more freedom to get around these blocks; so to counter this Netflix and many other streaming providers limit the resolution and bitrate available to Linux clients. Often they won't serve better than 720p to any linix client if I remember right, even with you paying the premium for 4k content.

Some people may be fine with that, others not so much. Louis Rossman made quite a fuss about that a while back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Some people may be fine with that, others not so much. Louis Rossman made quite a fuss about that a while back.

Rightly so. OS shouldn't matter one bit. If the customer is paying for a service, then that service should be rendered as paid for, or else it should be discounted.

I know I know... One can dream.

[–] Darkassassin07 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

That is a closely held secret amongst the communities that distribute that information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What's the show?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Top Gear UK seasons 1-22

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

Dropping the name of the show early in the conversation works better.

This show is readily available in torrents, where the community has curated from the highest quality sources available.

[–] Darkassassin07 10 points 20 hours ago

There's TONS of that available...

TPB, YourBittorrent, Limetorrents, Badasstorrents.

Those are just the free torrent trackers I use as backups that all return results for that show.

I'm sure you can find more. Take a look at the pile of free trackers available in prowlarr or jackett.

There's even more on Usenet (my primary source).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

top gear subreddit > top gear ultimate pack (1 TB)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Thanks! I'll have to check it out when I get back home. I'll leave this post up as a resource cause I do think there's some valuable information in here still.