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.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.works 18 points 1 week 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

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

Don't know tbh

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.social 1 points 1 week 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.