HACKER Q&A
📣 oulipo

A way to record any video on the web?


There are many "recorder" program on (say) osX, which can take the "loopback audio" and video and record it conveniently, why is it so hard to make an "os-level" / "chrome-level" plugin which would allow recording a video on any website? (and not just have to "reverse" the source of the video and download it, like youtube-dl does)


  👤 dtagames Accepted Answer ✓
Streams that are not DRM protected can be saved directly by the browser or by free tools like VLC. It would be illegal to try and work around DRM, which is why there aren't easily available tools for that.