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.
Silverlight makes most previous Netflix capture impossible.
Windows Media Encoder
This way is verified to work with the latest Microsoft Silverlight Netflix streaming movie system.
You can use UScreenCapture with Windows Media Encoder.
WME starts with a wizard page that has a screen catpure selection. Select the capture option that projects a flashing capture box on-screen. Increase both the frame and bit rates from the wizard's default to make them more appropriate for full-motion video - 24 FPS and 2400 Kbps. Start your video streaming source windowed, NOT FULL SCREEN.
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.
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