www.netflix.com: How to capture streaming Netflix movies

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Netflix is a movie rental company that sends movies directly to your home. Members also have the Watch Instantly feature, which allows them to instantly watch certain movies and television shows online directly on their home computers using a web-browser. If you want to capture Watch Instanly streaming movies and save them onto your computer, read the following guide.

How to capture/record/save/download/snatch/keep/grab streaming Netflix movies

1. Download Replay Media Catcher 4. This program allows you to save streaming video files from different websites, including Netflix, and save them directly to your computer.
   
2. Open Replay Media Catcher by double-clicking on the icon on your desktop (or launch it from the start menu). The program opens in a new window and offers several different options. Leave it while you go to Netflix web-site.
   
3. Log into your Netflix account, select one of the videos. Let it finish buffering, but press "Play" before it actually begins playing the video. It may take several minutes to finish buffering, depending on your connection speed.
   
4. Hit the "Start Recording" button at the bottom of the Replay Media Catcher window. The "Start Recording" button looks like a large red button. This allows to start recording any streaming audio and video files you're playing in your web-browser. They will be saved onto your computer's hard drive automatically.
   
5. Go to "Transfer" -> "Play Media" and select the file you just recorded (downloaded/captured) from Netflix. This gives you the chance to make sure the entire video recorded so you can watch it again at a later time.
   
   The video captured from Netflix is saved automatically. You can rename it by going to "Transfer" -> "Rename" and giving the file a new name.

Note: Replay Media Catcher can record (download or capture) several different streaming audio/video files at one time. You can capture Netflix videos and videos from other sites simultaneously. But we recommend you to record one video from Netflix at a time only.

Note: You can't capture Netflix movies by using Firefox or any of its extensions (add-ons).

[WHOOKIDSON]

I thought Netflix used Silverlight on which it sends tiny/different packets instead of a WHOLE stream ?

Originally Posted by WHOOKIDSON

I thought Netflix used Silverlight on which it sends tiny/different packets instead of a WHOLE stream ?

I don't have Netflix to try it. But Replay Media Catcher 4 supports SmoothStreaming MajorVersion 2 and 1 as well as Windows Media streams, so this should work (unless DRM protection and/or non-standard manifest is used).

[kalijkd]

i have win7 and have tried both Replay Media Catcher and streaming video recorder to try and download Netflix instant watch videos to my laptop for later viewing and burning to dvd but none of the players i have will play the download--windows media player, vlc, nero---anyone have a clue where im going wrong?
thanks

Originally Posted by kalijkd

i have win7 and have tried both Replay Media Catcher and streaming video recorder to try and download Netflix instant watch videos to my laptop for later viewing and burning to dvd but none of the players i have will play the download--windows media player, vlc, nero---anyone have a clue where im going wrong?

What kind of error exactly do you get when trying to play?
Also make sure your recordings don't have 0 file size.

[kalijkd]

--- Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

---vlc nothing---goes to player but wont play

----nero--cannot play--file is either corrupt or the application does not support the format you are trying to play

---files vary in size from 476kb to 789 kb--many files

thanks

If you get dozens or hundreds of small files, then it is probably better to record from screen.

WMP won't play many files unless you install codecs or a codec pack such as K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Usually if I can't play videos with VLC and SMPlayer, I give up.

[kalijkd]

this one has 49 files---how do you record Netflix from screen and how is quality--some of the movies from netflix that i would like for personal use are only avail on their instant watch
thanks again for your help

Originally Posted by kalijkd

this one has 49 files---how do you record Netflix from screen and how is quality--some of the movies from netflix that i would like for personal use are only avail on their instant watch

If you don't have any buffering problems when watching Netflix, you can use a screen recorder. The recording quality depends on the video codec and its settings.

[kalijkd]

thanks---i'll try it