While trying to find a torrent for a show, I became curious about how others are creating the torrents I know and love. Is ripping a video from a streaming service relatively easy? Are there tools y'all would recommend?

  • montar@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    yt-dlp does a great job at ripping on majority of websites. If yt-dlp can't rip something then likely there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service). There's also a hardware method that involves cheap chineese hdmi splitters (it needs to be a cheap one, b/c they lack support for DRM) and hdmi capture card. Sometimes it's DVD or blu-ray ripping.