my AI is so good, it generated one that’s 100% identical
plus my AI uses less than 99% of the electricity of Microsoft’s
You sound like a good candidate for the keto diet. It a hack for your hormones, so hunger cravings better match actual caloric needs. Plus, you’ll need to get high-carb foods out of your house, so they won’t be available in times of low self control.
- Find a tracker with open invites or a recruiting interview
- Be a positive part of that community, seeding forever, and becoming (usually) Power User or higher
- Look through the invites available in the PU+ forum section for other communities that interest you, and get invited from there
Yes. I cap upload and download, so the rest of my network runs smoothly. I then seed forever, so if anyone wants it, they can have it if they’re patient.
Yeah, I noticed that it has consistently picked the best format without me having to tell it. I just run the -F first, so I can see if that's true by looking at the available formats and looking at what is actually downloaded. I'm not at the point where I'll just trust it yet.
Edit: Oh, yeah, I meant to say: I'm totally open to suggestions for making this process better. The better it is, the more it may help someone else.
Yeah I agree. I can always do that later though. The digital copies will be gone in a couple months.
No worries. I already acknowledged that ripping or piracy were probably simpler.
For me, it’ll be a little more convenient to do the downloads than to spend time ripping. I’d have to go to the room with my computer that has a drive. Downloading I can do with my laptop anywhere.
I’ve been meaning to get better acquainted with yt-dlp’s settings for use all over the web, and the April deadline put on pressure to learn sooner rather than later.
And, although the disc version is undoubtedly better, the archivist in me also wants the digital copy version as it was available.
For others, they may not have a disc version at all and want to backup their purchases.
Edit: And, oh yeah, MakeMKV is awesome.
Background: I bought a Blue-ray set that came with a code for the digital copy. This was back before Funimation was acquired. I could go through and rip my discs since Sony seems to be on the verge of nuking my digital copies, but teaching myself yt-dlp seemed more convenient.
Here's are the settings I ended up using with yt-dlp to download digital copies from Funimation. I paste all three of these at the same time into the terminal, but you can paste them one at a time if you want. I'm on Linux and log into Funimation with Firefox, but it should be almost the same for Windows. The URL needs to be changed for each download. I have noticed some downloads stalling, but I if I refresh the pages that lists the episodes, the download resumes.
``` yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox -F https://www.funimation.com/path-to-episode yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --list-subs https://www.funimation.com/path-to-episode yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --write-description --write-info-json --write-sub --write-thumbnail --embed-subs -o '~/Path/To/Downloads/Video/Folder/s%(season_number)02de%(episode_number)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.funimation.com/path-to-episode
```
Here's what each part means:
Line 1:
-F
Outputs you which versions are available. I have it tell me this, so I can make sure when I run Line 3 the output matches the highest quality listed in the output from Line 1
--cookies-from-browser firefox
Tells yt-dlp to use the cookies from your browser to authenicate the download since it's only available if you're logged in.
Line 2:
--list-subs
Tells yt-dlp to list the kinds of subtitles it can find. I have a few episodes that it cannot find any subtitles even though they're avaiable when streaming. It seems like it's something weird with some episodes, and is probably related to this: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/1656
Line 3:
--write-description
Makes a .description text file with the description metadata in it in the same folder you download to.
--write-info-json
Makes an .info.json json/text file with all the metadata in it in the same folder you download to.
--write-sub
Makes an .srt srt/text file with the subtitles in it in the same folder you download to.
--write-thumbnail
Makes a .jpg image file of the thumbnail artwork for the episode in the same folder you download to.
--embed-subs
Embeds the subtitles in the downloaded video file.
-o '~/Path/To/Downloads/Video/Folder/s%(season_number)02de%(episode_number)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s'
Specifies the download path, and formats the filename as: s##e## - Episode Title.mp4
Hope this helps someone. I realize you could skip all this hassle and just pirate it somewhere, but I'm not sure where to find this specific release other than the digital copy on Funimation.
yt-dlp can be used.
I only have one purchase on Funimation, and it’s a digital version of a physical purchase.
I’m trying to figure out the exact best options at the moment. If there’s not one yet by the time I’m ready, I’ll make a thread with my command and why I chose each option.
Find a Usenet provider. A quick web search and some reading should get you to the right place. I’m not sure if any good free servers are available anymore, but there’s probably one that’s cheap enough.
Looks like https://sabnzbd.org/ is a free and open source Windows/MacOS/Linux client that can download files. I haven’t tried it, but it’s highly rated on alternativeto.net
HTML is pretty fun and easy. Here are some example websites that explain why an HTML+CSS site is a good idea.
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
And the drivatives:
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
https://bestmotherfucking.website/
If I were doing this and lived in a country that’s not hostile to piracy, I’d look up webhosting providers in my country. I’d then learn a little HTML and CSS at https://www.w3schools.com/html/ and just write pages in Notepad++ and upload them to the server.
If my host dumped me, it would be ridiculously simple to re-upload the files to a new host.
