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No DRM needed. many sites just use hls.js type of chunk download tactic, it is already enough to prevent ytdl from downloading.

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Is there any way to solve for that? I’ve noticed that and maybe that’s it or other chunked download stuff. That I haven’t been able to download. Never looked into this stuff enough to see what solutions are (besides brute force screen recording Ofc)

No one size fits all solution. You have to reverse engineer the way the script fetches and processes chunks and write a downloader or a plugin that instruments the running code and spits out the video data.

When wasm released I speculated that it will make this much more widespread and harder to reverse engineer due having more performace to waste on de-obfuscating at runtime. Feels nice to be wrong in this case.

Oh, I thought ytdl could deal with that! Do you know the specific issue and whether support is planned? Lack of HLS support would explain why there's no support for Zoom recordings.

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