(If you’re in a hurry, see at the very end for a quick list of all useful software and video tutorials)
JDownloader is an open source download manager, primarily aimed at downloading from captcha-protected download sites (RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile, Netload…) but supporting also any “normal” download (like a picture from photobucket, or actually any file from any server).
Although claiming to be open source (and actually, it’s currently under the GNU GPL), parts of it are close source. Notably because they rely on an undisclosed encryption algorithm for their encrypted links list files. I’ve never understood the point of making those lists undecipherable, particularly since anyone is able to open such a list with JDowloader and to grab the files. Only they won’t be able to easily get the location of those files.
Anyway, there are several easy ways to find the links inside a DLC:
- The always-working method: JDownloader will never be able to prevent you from using this method, as this would require the complicity of hosters. Basically, this method involves to simply spy your own connection and record what URLs are retrieved by JDownloader. When you load a DLC links list, JDownloader will check if the files are online. With any packet sniffer you can list those links. A more detailed short video tutorial was posted on sala source. Just in case this goes offline (as other DLC decrypters have), I mirrored their video on Megaupload there (tip: if you want to save download wait time, don’t download it yet but rather watch it live on megavideo) and their toolkit too.
- The easier method, but probably not working with recent DLC files (JDownloader tend to change their encryption method regularly to avoid decrypters): a decrypter made by Seba. It was originally posted on a BlogSpot blog but eventually disappeared. But thanks to FilesTube I still managed to find it and I uploaded it here. It was created around May 2009, so it should work with DLC files created before this date, and possibly during some time after. I didn’t test it with current DLC files.
For a short summary:
hey, I hacked together a little web app to do this too
check out http://www.decryptdlc.info
Actually, I think it might be blocked at the moment, working sporadically
I guess a web app will always be vulnerable to this. oh well
gracias mjonson, justo lo que estaba buscando excelente.
No need to install a program:
Http://www.decontainer.infodoes it for you.Well, actually the files which are listed here all don’t need to be installed. On the opposite, this decontainer.info website requires the installation of *cough* M$ Silverlight (which of course won’t work in Firefox)
It does work, you just have to restart FF if you have not got FF 3.5 or above i think.
Silverlight is like flash and more and more sites are adopting it…
Hm… then maybe it’s because I’m on 3.6 beta. Installation hangs at the beginning, after:
“One moment, please, while the current Silverlight installation status is determined…
Microsoft Silverlight may not be supported on this browser.”
Both the method posted here and the online services are not working
I suppose they updated the DLC encryption then. Yet the “always-working” method still works
If you have trouble with their toolkit, you could try with something like WireShark instead.
Silverlight needs to just die and give up … YUCK! Microsucks can take a hike really… they haven’t produced anything decent since windoze 98.
surprised anyone techie enough to put together a DLC decryption website would use crappy M$ stuff! UBUNTU! Or even Leopard for that matter! I mean my god, how many licks does it take to get Internet Explorer right? Apparently none, cuz it’ll never be right!
Thanks anyway, always appreciate people putting up their work like that, just too bad most people won’t use it due to silverlight.
Actually, unfortunately I’m not sure many ppl really mind installing Silverlight
It’s like Vista and Seven, it’s all flash no substance but basic consumers love the shiny look, even when performances are poor. I recently checked a friend’s laptop, Seven took ages to load because she had 1.4 GiB of RAM getting filled at start up with various junk (MSN, SKype, etc) – it was so much junk that it created a conflict with sound playback (it turned out the culprit was Skype). But I’m getting off topic, eh 
David Dernoncourt is correct. Why would anyone sane install Silverlight at all? Sorry dude, but I don’t think you’ll be seeing intelligent life forms visiting your site. You might get some using Vista/Seven + I.E., but then again, those people do not classify as “intelligent life forms”
Wow, are you guys really that arrogant? OMFGLINUXISGAWDLOLOLOL
Get a life. Not everything revolves around some idiots getting together and trying to use for-server OS as actual user OS. I have no problem with 7. In fact, it’s faster, not to mention better, than XP ever was, which was faster than ‘windoze 98′ could ever hope to be.
Of course, if you’re running a crap laptop with a billion programs loading on startup . . . um, what do you actually expect to happen? You can’t possibly think of blaming an OS for doing what it’s told. That’s just ignorant.
@Whatever:
1. Nobody before you talked about Linux in this thread.
2. You make me realize that I forgot to mention one thing in my last comment about this friend who had a very slow start-up: she we was still happy with it, “because it looks good” (hence my “basic consumers love the shiny look, even when performances are poor”).
3. Are you also going to pretend that XP is faster than 3.1? Se7en is only interesting because Microsoft didn’t want to add some features to XP. Mainly: a well-promoted 64 bits version, Dx11, support for more hardware by default. Also about the speed, you waste tons of time with this UAC crap (or end up deactivating it): Se7en is like “XP with extra Linux annoyances” (and with 4 times the RAM usage on a clean install).
Consider that if you see, advertised, an online web app that decodes dlc information
that’s an easy way for the operator to find dlc applications.
eg.
Here’s a great link just input the url of the dlc and it will decode it.
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Thus is MS owns the decoder site it’s gonna kill that url fast. duh.