Recorded porn videos show DMCA watermark.

[April]

I was questioned by a user to see I can access some porn sites and watch vids easily but cannot record with ffconvert?

The recorded videos are being corrupted by something and I wonder if you have found this and found a way round it.
Its annoying because I notice it is being picked up and used all over the net to corrupt downloads and I download a lot of Utube sailing videos to re-run. I can see that they will pick it up too, soon.

Use ffconvert in the menu which uses ffmpeg to record a porn video from the screen and it will come out movement distorted . Try it .
You know its a fact of life . Millions of people watch porn every day . Nothing shameful in that . Its even humorous at times but I am concerned that all videos will be affected soon.

Seems there is a software being used that allows you to watch a video live but not record it with ffconvert /ffmpeg. Does not seem to matter which ffmpeg or puppy you use.

This marking shows up often too I see. Don't know if it is responsible.

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[mikeslr]

Edited Oct 5,'21 because as a result of the 'IdentTrust' problem, see viewtopic.php?p=38360#p38360, even more websites will no longer permit access via seamonkey2.46.
AFAIK, all current firefox, chromium & clones enable the installation of addons/extensions. Among those are such video download apps as video downloadhelper. Using these you can download a video rather than just steam it.
What isn't obvious is that rather than Left-Click the Download/Save button or equivalent, several will display a "copy url" to clip-board or equivalent option if you Right-Click that button.
Having copied the source URL to the clip-board, you can then Menu>Internet>uGet and paste that URL into its source field. [Opening uGet may have done this automatically]. With uGet downloading the source-file, your web-browser is now free to use for other activities: it no longer has to remain on the source-files web-page.
Which addon/extension your browser can use, which can be used with various web-sites, and which offers a Right-Click option can only be determined by trial-and-error.

-=-=----
The following may still work in some cases:
I don't think it matters what the content is. AFAIK, the easiest way to record any streaming media --while it still functions is--
Seamonkey portable 2.46 with
ca-archive installed from here, https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive
which is then used to install netvideohunter 1.20.
Netvideohunter can directly download videos. But with a little exploring of the download drop-down mechanism, the url of the stream itself can be copied to the clip-board and from there passed to uget.
Seamonkey 2.46 is the last under which Netvideohunter will function. [Of course, you don't need the portable; but then you'd have to resolve dependencies on your own*].
Seamonkey 2.46 is now 5 years old. Increasingly websites refuse to allow access, demanding newer web-browsers. Palemoon and Waterfox-classic can both use the ca-archive+netvideohunter combo but netvideohunter, itself, can't handle some recent codec/containers? and so doesn't see some streams.

There are up-to-date 'video-download' addons/extensions for more recent web-browsers. Probably worth exploring when netvideohunter ceases to be reasonably functional.

-=-=-=-=-
* See post here. viewtopic.php?p=8330#p8330. It also works with Seamonkey.

[April]

Generally speaking if I can get a link direct to the stream then there is a web downloader I use for UTube and facebook and others that works well and therefore saves all that messing around. Also I would not go there if its that old.
https://yt1s.com/en1

ffconvert is recording whats on the screen playing .

I'm looking to find out what is causing this interruption of the stream that is happening and how to overcome it.

[mikewalsh]

@April :-

That's a simple one, mate. DMCA.com? That's copyright protection, pure & simple. It's being used by more & more content providers to ensure you have to pay to watch their media content.

All about making money, kiddo.

Mike.

[April]

OK thanks Mike .
No need for more . I know that already but they take sites down that steal copywrite material . That's their stated purpose. They don't interfere with downloads per see as far as I can see. So you don't know . I don't mean to be rude but could you just leave it for other opinions please.

I am asking if anyone knows whats being used and if there are any workarounds . I personally do not think its coming from DMCA .

[p310don]

Haven't tried it with porn, but did a screen record of youtube, instagram and netflix (all 3 are good at not allowing downloads) and had no problems using Screencaster in Fatdog.

A good download utility that I've used to download off youtube and iview is youtube-dl which works with lots of websites

[mikeslr]

April: "ffconvert is recording whats on the screen playing" Emphasis supplied.

Very inefficient. Once netvideohunter begins to download, or the Download's URL is copied to uget*, the desktop becomes available. You can open other tabs, run other browsers, open other applications, change to a different virtual desktop. Website premitting, uget can open multiple connections the file to be downloaded.

Once downloaded, a vid can be converted to your choice of container and codec.

* I keep forgetting about wget. The url can be passed to it as well. As Clarity pointed out, viewtopic.php?p=7157#p7157 wget can resume broken downloads.

[Feek]

Just out of curiosity I've tested the recording of a pop-music video on youtube with screencaster in Fatdog. It works but I wasn't able to set the right parameters for a good quality.

"linux MP4" with "high quality" - video and sound not good.
"lossless" (MKV-best quality) - the sound a little better but video image not visible.

Didn't test the "custom quality", maybe this will be the right option.

[p310don]

Didn't test the "custom quality", maybe this will be the right option.

@Feek go into the custom quality - the default setting is to record at 10fps, when you up that it improves the recording dramatically

[April]

Haven't tried it with porn, but did a screen record of youtube, instagram and netflix (all 3 are good at not allowing downloads) and had no problems using Screencaster in Fatdog.

A good download utility that I've used to download off youtube and iview is youtube-dl which works with lots of websites

Any links to a download site? "Screencaster in Fatdog"
I use Xenial and its not in the PPM there so I would like to get the latest and put it in .
I have a d/l er for UTube that's no problem
Thanks.

[April]

I decided to get fatdogs iso and have a look that way at what goes on.

In fact in Seamonkey browser the videos play well. As soon as you start Screencaster recording though like Xenial the screen goes to a slide show with something like 3 seconds between a captured frame. There is a definite disruption of the stream and that happens in xenial too .

So I don't think you are watching much porn p310don....

[April]

Recipient: April
Screencaster works perfectly on Chaturbate and Pornhub for me.
Maybe your PC doesn't have the grunt to play and record at the same time and is dropping frames?

Thanks . Yeh Ill have to try that out with another machine . maybe also the configuration of ffmpeg. I think I saw screencaster uses it too .

[Grey]

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[April]

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Not looking to get into silly discussions on porn .
I'm interested in finding the cause of ffmpeg going into slide show mode almost.
Its suggested it might be the capabilities of this machine ...Does anyone have an opinion on this please?

▶—— CPU ——◀

Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz
Socket Designation: Microprocessor
Manufacturer: Intel
Voltage: 1.8 V
External Clock: 800 MHz
Max Speed: 5200 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:3400 MHz, 1:3400 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 2
64-bit capable

Frequency governor : performance
Freq. scaling driver : p4-clockmod

▶—— /proc/cpuinfo ——◀

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz
stepping : 2
microcode : 0xf
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl eagerfpu pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
bugs :
bogomips : 6782.78
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz
stepping : 2
microcode : 0xf
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl eagerfpu pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
bugs :
bogomips : 6782.73
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

[p310don]

I think the CPU is your problem. That Pentium D is somewhere between 13 & 16 years old. It'd be struggling to play HD video, to record it at the same time would be too much for it.

You could try changing settings on videos to lower resolution, and recording in lower quality to see if that increases the frame rate.

[April]

Yes I know it is old but its speed at the time was pretty good . What speed does yours run at now? and what might I buy now that has a larger capacity and speed please?
2 cores and 2 threads running at 3.4 Mhz is not what I would consider a slouch.
Fairly good memory too.
Mind you though they cost me $20 each and I bought 20. The local council sold them at auction and I put a better chip in this one.

Memory Allocation:
Total RAM: 3877 MB
Used RAM: 3295 MB
Free RAM: 582 MB
Buffers: 829 MB
Cached: 1552 MB
Total Swap: 63 MB
Free Swap: 63 MB

Actual Used RAM: 914 MB Used - (buffers + cached)
Actual Free RAM: 2963 MB Free + (buffers + cached)

Linux Kernel: 4.9.58 (x86_64)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 13 15:54:01 GMT 2017

[p310don]

@April unfortunately clock speed doesn't tell you the whole picture. I have a 6 core, 3.8ghz 8 year old processor at home, goes pretty well. Then I have a 2 year old i3 4 core 3.0ghz at work. The 3.0 i3 kills the 3.8 in every metric, and uses less power doing it.

As a quick test, run hardinfo and tell me your first result (CPU Blowfish). I'm guessing from my own experiences with various PCs, but I reckon anything more than about 10 seconds would struggle to achieve what you're wanting.

[April]

8.74

[p310don]

My regular PC is 2 seconds - handles screen recording no problems. Another PC is an 11, can't do it. You're in the middle somewhere, so I'm going to guess it is just CPU / PC limitations.

[April]

Have a good day, gentlemen! It's all about making the money April. The DMCA mark is the copyright protection mark.

Yes, well we have moved past that. If one machine can record it without problem then its extra speed is the needed factor.
DMCA protection is more about getting the pirated material off other sites if you read up on it.

[Eastler_Dart]

. . . Seamonkey 2.46 is now 5 years old . . .

for long time, I didn't update Seamonkey above 2.46,
because the newer ones feel big and blow up on my
old Lappy, 32-bit Puppy (Precise and Tahr...)
(Cpu is 64bit, but Ram ist max 4GB)

some time ago, when I 'worked' at my new UpupEF-Puppy 32bit,
I stumbled on
SeaMonkey Version 2.53.7.1
which gives the feeling, being quick and small.
Ok, it didn't start, if you don't have a Gtk3-Theme installed,
after that, it works . . . and, suddenly I was able
to start for example 'stonies-game.upjers.com'
which wouldn't start with older seamonkeys.

Maybe, your problem with videos get also smaller or are gone
with this 2.53 Seamonkey

hope it helps a little

Eastler

[April]

It would be nice, but ffmpeg does not work through the browser .

[snoring_cat]

Can you please supply the exact steps you did (with a screenshots probably of ffconvert), so that we can try to recreate your problem. I'm curious as to how you are getting a "Protected by DMCA" message when it sounds like you were recording your desktop while a video was being played.

[mikeslr]

"Recorded porn videos show DMCA watermark". I would think, under the circumstances, that the practical problem is one of placement: What does the DMCA watermark obscure?

[April]

In fact if you look or try it the DCMA watermark as you call it does not show up at all . Its only mentioned on the website and is used to supposedly give the original poster of the video a right of claim to the video if it appears on a competitors web site . So that point is not well understood .

As far as recreating it go to any video site (not Youtube or Facebook of course) play the video and pause it .
Then open ffconvert and set it to record one frame or the whole page,set for say 5 minutes ,give it somewhere to download to . It will set up a red record button . Start the button and switch to the web site and record .

I set up ffconvert with an "avi" setting but you can use whatever works . They do not all work.

[snoring_cat]

I cannot recreate your issue. I'm wondering if when you see the red "record" button, you might think that it means record the actual video that is in your browser. When you hit record, you are recording what is visible on your desktop. So if the video isn't playing in your browser, what you record will not show the video being played in your browser.

[April]

No the browser is using its player and if its on your screen playing its recording the screen or a part of it as you choose.

You will still see the video playing but it immediately becomes fractured and intermittent and the recording will be too.

Perhaps you are not understanding how to record with ffconvert?
I think I am leaning to the processor not being fast enough to do both at the same time.

[snoring_cat]

Wait a sec. If you are recording your desktop while watching a video, I wonder if your computer is getting bogged down, and having problems buffering the video. The site you are getting the video from might be sending a copyright screen when buffering is happening. In this scenario, the problem is with your computer being under powered. I think you just pointed out the cause of your problem.

This is kind of common. Some people use OBS to capture their screen and stream the captured video to others on the internet. That takes a lot of CPU processing. If you are playing a high CPU game, well then the game and video will be super slow and jittery.

[April]

I think you just caught on.