Tech-savvy people of Mastodon: I have a need to screengrab episodes of Clarkson's Farm
(I'm doing a "person reviews X show on YouTube" & just need to get short clips)
Clarkson's Farm is available only on Amazon Streaming, which does not allow screens (just gives you a black screen when you try)
....does anyone have recommendations
I'm already paying for the show so ethically, there are no problems w taking to the high seas here
I'm just not a great navigator (I put all my Nerd Points into Grow Vegetable & Agricultural Business Models, not Software)
@sarahtaber OBS might work.
I'd be shocked if streaming from the Firefox browser in a linux computer didn't let you screengrab it ...
Update: yep. I have just tried in Ubuntu 24.04 with control+alt+shift+R, and I can capture video just fine. I used Chromium instead of Firefox, because I didn't have DRM enabled in Firefox.
If you don't want to install Ubuntu, there is a live image that runs from a USB pen, and can access your local hard drive to save the videos. Plug the USB pen, reboot into the live image, screengrab, then exit and return to your regular operating system.
@7leaguebootdisk listen if that's how people want to spend their time I'm not gonna tell y'all no
the phone thing might be fine tho
ma'am i say this with as much love as i can for my linux brethren, who are out here fighting the good fight
start with the phone pic
@albertcardona fascinating
I do not have a Linux computer nor the expertise to set Linux up on my existing computer without exploding something
if anyone who does Linux wanted to take a few clips & send them my way, that would be most appreciated (I can send timestamps)
otherwise it's probably the Point A Phone At It kludge for me lol
If budget allows it or there's one sitting around, linux runs on just about any old laptop, even 10+ years old. Can become handy for things like this. Welcome to freedom from corporate nonsense.
@sarahtaber I have actually used analog tech when this happens to me with other things. I just use a camera aimed at the screen.
However, I'm sure some folks will have better technical solutions.
@meganL no joke I did this (for a map of North Dakota farmland rental prices) & someone was like "why don't you just [software solution] for this"
sir this is a farm channel
@sarahtaber Haha, and it makes one stand out from a lot of other channels. Make a virtue of those production values!
"Brought to you in stupendous Jank-O-Vision™"
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@Argonel real talk I just did this (for a map of North Dakota farmland rental prices) & someone was like "why don't you just [software solution] for this"
sir this is a farm channel
anyway that left me w the impression that that is somehow Inappropriate
great way to avoid YT censors though, the software is real unlikely to recognize it as copyrighted footage (it'd be Fair Use but that doesn't always stop YT from demonetizing the video)
@brunogirin @sarahtaber I'm in the US, where he is somewhat known for his motor vehicle program, and absolutely think he's a choad.
I'm hoping the screenshots are for reactions that are entertaining in that respect. 😂
@sarahtaber I recommend Stacher7 https://stacher.io/ however it might be a macOS app only. Not sure.
It uses 2 command-line apps and puts a user interface on that, so youtube-dl is the mother code you would want in your native app.
@sarahtaber have you tried this recommendation for example?
https://www.theverge.com/23715928/netflix-amazon-prime-screenshot-mac-windows-how-to
This is from 2023 so it may or may not be working solution right now.
Other than taking a look if russian archive service rutracker.org have the series that you need, maybe they are there.
@sarahtaber I'd try a few different browsers; I don't recall which ones are MPAA-suckups and which aren't. This youtube video would imply you can bypass it in chrome by turning off some hardware acceleration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M3LxYLwc3Y
If this is a thing you believe you're gonna do much of I wonder if one of the lower-cost options that targets streamers would work for you. Just something that goes inline to the HDMI connection to the monitor, as I understand it.
I came here to warn you that someone was inevitably going to tell you to switch to Linux.
I see I'm too late.
@sarahtaber Try YT-DLP it will run on a windoows computer, and perhaps give your windows computer linux-like power.
Its a command line video downloader program, but is easy enough to use if one can copy the URL of the video you are after.
If it works you would get your own copy of that video on your computer
To install on windows use the scoop tool
@sarahtaber A closer read ...
The yt-dlp.exe link in the installation section, should allow you to install this on your windows computer
It lists amazon streaming as something its capable of downloading
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md
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