I’m trying to wrap my head around how media player websites work.
This might not be fully programming, but idk where else to post this question
Some video sharing sites uses blob objects to send the video in chunks, instead of letting the browser download in full. Usually there’s mpd or m3u8 files that we can use to download the whole video
But some sites don’t use those files. They send mp4 chunks, but those mp4s can’t be played and seem encrypted.
How is the webpage’s video player able to play the video? Is there a decrypter or something in the webpage/video player? Am i able to download all mp4 chunks and run them through some decrypter in the webpage served to me and create the whole video from it?
So far, I’ve tried passing in my cookies and the website url but it states 403 error, i might be missing something (video requires sign in to watch)
you most likely need to pass a cookies file to authenticate How do i pass cookies to yt-dlp
If the video is actually encrypted (like a streaming service) there are a lot more steps to do to strip Widevine
Yea, seems like its playready by microsoft
What more steps do i need to do?