Difference between revisions of "Netflix Video Stream Capture"

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Microsoft Silverlight

Netflix's change to Microsoft's Silverlight-based streaming player has rendered the original Netflix stream capture methods inoperative. Researching stream capture from Netflix on the web produces a lot of useless information on capturing streams using techniques involving the cURL utility or a Grease Monkey Plugin script for Firefox. These methods have been nullified by the Netflix change to using Microsoft Sliverlight as their latest delivery system for streaming video to your PC.

references

How to save streaming netflix video

• http://www.ehow.com/how_4910185_capture-streaming-netflix-movies.html
• http://forum.rorta.net/showthread.php?t=1134

Stream Ripping via a Script (no longer viable due to Silverlight)

• http://forum.rorta.net/showthread.php?t=1134
• http://forum.rorta.net/showpost.php?p=11715&postcount=99

CAVEAT: The new Silverlight-based Netflix viewer now prevents the capture of the entire Netflix stream by repeatedly opening and closing the stream, putting an end to that exploit. Silverlight has its own DRM system too.

VLC Option:

• http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=58200