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[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

So why is it rejected?

Just because they're still trying to use HDMI to prevent piracy? Who in fuck's name is using HDMI capture for piracy? On a 24fps movie, that's 237MB of data to process every second just for the video. A 2 hour movie would be 1.6TB. Plus the audio would likely be over 2TB.

I've got a Jellyfin server packed with 4K Blu-ray rips that suggest there are easier ways to get at that data.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The CEO's of the media companies are all fucking dinosaurs who still think VCRs should have been made illegal. You will never convince them that built in copy protection is a dumb idea and a waste of time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where are they finding dinosaurs to fuck that know what a VCR is?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Mine can barely work the TV remote!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

HDMI Splitter + capture card.

No video put on a streaming service produced in the next 40 years will need HDMI 2.1 to display.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can't you compress what the HDMI outputs in real time so that it would have a normal size?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure. But why bother when you can rip it right from the disc in higher quality than you could ever hope to capture in real time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

All I can think of would be capturing a live broadcast of something airing on TV, and only on TV. Which... Has to be pretty rare these days. And you still have better methods to capture even that!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Even despite that HDMI capture is simply an awful way of obtaining that data, it's even more pathetic when that "protection" can be defeated by a $30 capture card on Amazon...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The profiles HDMI 2.1 enables are even worse - 4k@120fps type stuff. Not exactly something needed for a movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Any good sources on those rips? You can pm of it helps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I just use the trusty old Radarr stack to find them. Pulls from https://1337x.to/ https://thepiratebay.org/ and https://therarbg.to/ on my set up.

You have to get there early to have much chance of getting a full 60GB+ 4K Blu-ray rip in a timely manner, but the ~15GB x265 rips are indistinguishable to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Recently become a fan of kickasstorrents, they usually have a x265 version with a bunch of blu-ray extras and Prowlarr already knows who they are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They're back? Thought they closed years ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'll have to add them to the list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Is therarbg safe? The original rarbg closed one or two years ago.

Also, don't forget torrent private trackers. They're harder to get in (signups are usually closed, or you need an invite from someone who's already in), but they're very good!

Lots of hight quality content, well organized, usually with many seeds.

Of course you need to follow their rules and seed enough.

Usenet is also a surprisingly good way to find content, but you'll need to pay both an indexer and a server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can pirate media that uses that new blu ray drm by plugging a capture card into the overpriced compatible DVD player and recording the video. Also, it's a way to transfer saved content from a dvr as their hard drives are always encrypted (do those still exist). The video stream on all this stuff is encrypted with hdcp to prevent this but there exist hdcp strippers. It seems to still be possible to buy them even on Amazon. Stock up before they get banned. Frankly I'm surprised they aren't banned already.