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.

Blank Video or Black Video during capture

Capturing Video During the Screen Capture If you plan to capture full-motion video during your screen-capture session, disable your computer's hardware acceleration. If you do not disable hardware acceleration, you may notice a black screen where you expect the video to display.

To disable hardware acceleration

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Appearance and Themes, click Display, and then click the Settings tab.
3. Click Advanced, and then click the Troubleshoot tab.
4. Note the current settings, so that you can reset them after you complete the screen capture.
5. For Hardware acceleration, drag the slider to None, and then click Apply.

references

How to save streaming netflix video

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• 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

Related:

• VideoLAN Player (VLC)
• Recording Video With VLC

research

• Replay Media Capture (someone claims this captures Netflix with Silverlight)
• Tunebite captures video streaming including Netflix.

• Audials Tunebite or Audials One. ·link 1·

• FRAPS - captures all video and sound when you have your movie in fullscreen ·link 1·