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Ask HN: How to turn off DRM screen recording detection in macOS (at the root)?

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Here's my problem:

1. On my mac I've installed some apps like Rewind which constantly record the screen.

2. I go to Netflix to watch something, screen is black.

3. "Why don't you turn off Rewind?" I did. Still black.

4. "Why don't you restart control center?" I did.

5. "Why don't you turn off permissions for ALL apps to record your screen?" I did.

6. "Did you turn off and on the browser?" I did.

7."Did you try a different browser?" I did, still black.

8."Did you turn off hardware acceleration?" That works but the browser gets slow so I don't want to do that.

9. So literally my problem is: there's some apple bug where I CAN'T watch even though I'm NOT recording my screen.

10. So fuck it. How is it that no hacker on hackernews by now has figured out how to nuke this DRM shit at the root? (I'm talking system level) Anyone know of anything?

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1. Open a tab in Safari and go to the Netflix site.

2. Go to the Safari menu and select Settings for this Website.

3. In the pop up window select Auto-Play and Allow All Auto Play.

Try again..

Btw, you won't find any drm remove/switch off switches that are publicly known. To be able to show content is a right granted to you by the content delivery, and they want to see if you can do it safely, seen from the perspective of delivery. So you need to adhere to the standards

Tried it, but was already set to Allow All Auto Play. Tried toggling it off and on, still black.

Then, 3b-a. Uninstalling rewind to see whether it helps.

I remember to have had similar things on Windows+Firefox. No matter what website, no video. It plays, but black. It was like it was overlayed with something, because going full screen and back fast, or start/stopping it fast, somehow helped for this one view. Also while going full screen and back, I could see some parts of the video flashing on the sides..Next view, may be - may be not - black.

There, switching off hardware acceleration helped, too. Until it started to show the same behavior after a short period of working, too. Then switching it on again helped. Also, switching off and switching on while video played.

I think, then I switched off the settings flag to use some specific codec (like "always use .264" = off ) in my browsers settings. The problem went away after some system updates or some codec installations. ... May be there's a codec pack for Macs?

Your next steps could be:

- 3b-a (if each drm video has problems..)

- Try to find out if there is a possibility to switch off/on forcefully set codec in your browser. May be Netflix will serve another codec'ed files then.

The DRM is Apple's and built into the M series chipsets. "Root" does nothing here.

3b. Uninstall Rewind?

Probably joking but if not, don't want to, it's too useful.

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