Hi,
Lovefilm.com (a UK company, with headquarters in UK, and owned by
Amazon), also accessed thru lovefilm.co.uk, has only 1 streaming quality: 800kbps, with the resolution (dimensions) depending on the movie. 800kbps is, in general, ugly quality; Amazon.com Instant Videos (AIV's) are streamed in 1328kbps 480p if it is non-HD; and HD is even higher. Moreover only a fraction of all Lovefilm DVD's are available as "Watch Online" versions. Then again maybe some 30% of the "Watch Online" videos are FREE to "Watch Now" for subscribers of a streaming flatrate, but most online videos (~70%)
cost money on a pay-per-view basis. So before subscribing to their expensive service, make sure that the number of "Watch Now (FREE)"-videos of your interest is worth the trouble.
After all i cannot recommend their subscription service if you're only after pirating
the few online videos they have (and all in horrid video quality). A much better place to do so is Amazon Instant Video (for U.S. customers
), for which you dont even need any subscription.
Anyway, for testing purposes you dont need to be subscribed. Everybody (with a U.K. ip address
) can watch some videos FOR FREE and without prior registration afaik, please go to:
Code:
http://www.lovefilm.com/browse/film/watch-online/free/
I cant get
rtmpdump to work (i feel dump
) and
GetFLV captures some RTMP-url but fails to download the stream. It doesnt look like a tough case so i am sure that GetFLV can download them with the next updated versions.
Maybe we could use the following as testpage url (video link!):
Code:
http://www.lovefilm.com/film/50-Greatest-Magic-Tricks/131987/
(
what a crappy quality!!)
Good luck everybody!