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Can't download purchased movies from YouTube (encrypted?) #9148
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Most likely they are DRM protected. |
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I'd be happy to donate to the project for somebody to buy some movies to test this out; is there any way I can do so? I can code but don't have any experience in breaking DRM. |
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No one had so far (apart from obvious screen capturing and some non practical heuristic sequence based approaches). |
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I tried this again today just to see if I could use any other apps to remove the DRM but now I got the error 'rental videos unsupported' rather than the previous output. So it looks like this is another #359 duplicate... not sure why it worked initially though (not removing the DRM, but downloading the original file at least). |
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at least detect that the video or the format are DRM protected.
needs confirmation if this information can help to detect DRM protection in youtube. |
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Is there any update on this? I have numerous movies that are purchased that you can use for testing |
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@sakanaproductions Just tried this on the latest version (2017.04.11), and it seems to work fine for purchased videos, despite one warning which didn't seem to affect the output. The resulting file was DRM-free. I don't have any "rented" videos, so not sure if those use different DRM. |
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@tommcintyre what syntax did you use? I am running 2017.04.11 version and I get 2 warnings: |
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I could've sworn I had a working drm-free video file from the 4.27 version, but since 4.28 everything's been unable to be properly played back. |
Please follow the guide below
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When I try to download a movie from YouTube that's been purchased on Google Play, it'll appear to be downloaded successfully, but upon opening the file in the player the screen is black and no sound played. The video length on the seeker is correct, however. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly but I suppose it might be that YouTube uses some sort of extra encryption on movies that isn't present for normal videos.
N.b. I cancelled the download in the log given, but I've confirmed this happens each time when downloading in full. I've also tried other formats, none of which seem to work (the default is 1080p webm).
I've tried with the stable 2016.04.06 version, and the git version.