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Is there a way to download Netflix videos too? My reason is I just can't watch anything at less than 1.5X speed nowadays and Netflix has no such option on mobile (there is a chrome extension though). Any ideas how to do either (dl or increase playback speed on mobile)

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...you can't watch anything at less than 1.5x?

Is this something you've trained yourself to do...? Like deliberately?

The downside of nootropics?

It it's not uncommon to habitually listen to podcasts at that speed, and after a while you get used to it and everything else just sounds slow. Not exactly intentional, rather a side effect of something that made sense by itself.

This is fine for podcasts, lectures and books where the purpose is to take in information. Timing in movies and TV shows is important; silences and slow pans are placed there for a reason. I can't imagine why one would watch a movie or TV show at 1.5x when the purpose isn't to take in information, but to enjoy artwork.

Yes I have. I often watch video tutorials at 4X speed (chrome used to cut off audio after that so I couldn't go over that limit).

Nowadays i even watch movies at 1.5x speed and it looks very normal to me. Once you get used to it you can't have it any other way (especially documentaries and slow movies)

To my knowledge there isn't a way to bypass its DRM atm (to directly download a file).

It's certainly possible, look for the various groups releasing untouched Netflix video on your favourite filesharing platform.

They're not about to make their method public though, and last I read up on it I don't think they can do 4k? But SD/720p/1080p is all there.

I believe 4k uses hdcp to your monitor, but the other formats are as simple as screen capturing.

SD/720p/1080p netflix can be de-drm'd losslessly, there's no capture/re-encode step needed (...if you know the technique, I don't but assume it involves the download to watch offline feature).

+1. The lack of 2x playback speed makes documentaries on Netflix unwatchable. Third-party Chrome extensions of unknown origin doesn't seem like a good idea.

Unfortunately, easier to stick to YouTube and VLC for documentary watching.

Get Greasemonkey and you can limit the video speed controller to certain websites or turn it off when you're not using it. (And also disable auto update of the script).

You mean apart from the obvious?

Obvious what?

p2p+native video player.

Sorry I still don't get it. Do you mean torrents when you say p2p?

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