Movie is too niche on public trackers. The one 1080p copy I found being seeded looks like it was Handbraked with a CR of 42 on very fast settings. Just compressed to high heaven.
Terramaris
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Dungeons and Dragons (2000). Digging up any copies is tough since you get flooded with the '23 reimagining.
May you please translate ELI5 this for me? I have a full attic of DvDs and VHS tapes I need to backup and your method sounds promising.
Thank you very much! That is what I will do then.
Yes, screen capture with an HDMI splitter and capture card.
and grab the video from something like 1337x in a decrypted format.
This was extremely tempting to do, but this is a bit of a niche movie and the only copy I can find on public trackers (the cons of being a debrid user) with any seeds is one of absolutely abysmal quality. Like my 480p DvD version on my shelf is better than that 1080p torrent.
They use PlayReady DRM so a browser extension might be able to pull the decryption key during playback. One could download that same stream from that playback season then use ffmpeg with the pulled key to decrypt.
I will look into this. Thank you :)
Btw can the said movie be played in a browser via say the GRC site? It may be an easier target.
Yes, the movie can be played via browser on the GRC website. I think you gave me an idea, and I want to run it by you to see your thoughts on it. Now I have the hardware to do a WebRip from GRC's website, but avoided that for this movie since I wanted to have the higher bitrate of a WebDL. You got me thinking though, what if I do a "webrip" but done from the GRC app? Since bandwith isn't a factor (I believe) because the 7gb movie is right on my computer, would I not get WebDL quality?
The video is about 7gb. The Audio is about 100mb. Its a 1080p movie.
I was looking into FFMPEG just a minute ago. I believe it can strip the encryption, but I will need to grab the WV encryption keys beforehand.
Yes, I was able to open it in Notepad++. Its XML like you said. Its big at over 2500 lines.
I think you might be onto something. VLC can open the .mpd files, it has an encrypted black screen but it shows me the movie's 1h47m runtime on the time slider, so the .mpds and the .mp4s are for sure connected. Handbrake however doesn't know what to do with the .mpds, and whenever I try and put the .mp4s into Handbrake it just shows me grey fuzz on the previews.
The few copies I found are either 480p rips or no seeders. The best copy is on GRC's digital store (and now on my PC recording it) I hate to say.