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    Having trouble capturing NETFLIX streaming video in a IE browser - suggestions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by imsa76 View Post
    Having trouble capturing NETFLIX streaming video in a IE browser - suggestions?
    Hey there, Actually you might want to try it using Replay Screencast. That's the ONLY way to record it, as they've set up a unique browser that cannot be 'captured' by any other method. I've got a SMOKING fast home internet connection, and it was a bit jumpy for me, as Netflix browser uses A LOT of bandwidth and memory. But give it a shot, maybe you'll have better luck than I did personally. :-)
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    Note: I complained about Applian's marketing vis-a-vis Netflix, as they give you the impression you can successfully record Netflix. However, it's not really possible or feasible to get a good recording right now. Between the CPU requirements of both the Netflix player and the Screencast program, the framerates are terrible.

    On the other side of the coin, Applian told me --to their credit-- that the Screencast program will soon be updated to be less CPU intensive. Hopefully that will help.

    Netflix utilizes Microsoft's "Silverlight" streaming (MS's Flash-like application).

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    Quote Originally Posted by imsa76 View Post
    Having trouble capturing NETFLIX streaming video in a IE browser - suggestions?
    I know I am both off-topic here and out of place, but I have captured streamed movies (using MovieLink as my source) by playing them in full screen on my lap top and then feeding the laptop output via S-Video to my DVD Recorder/TV. I know it is not Applian's playground, but it gets the job done.

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    Default Screencast is the CPU usage culprit

    I did a test tonight using the Netflix streaming (in Internet Explorer) with the Screencast in Recording mode as well. Screencast was using about 95 percent of my CPU's cycles, effectively bringing the PC to a halt. So, they definitely need to rewrite the code for Screencast to make it efficient. It's unusable now (at least for Netflix) with such a high CPU utilization rate.
    Last edited by Heyitsrick; 03-21-2008 at 08:12 AM.

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    Hi Erick

    I Guess I lucked out with this due to my dual-core processor (spent $400 on it, it better work, haha). I did hear from the developer on screencast, and they are working on a version that will use lower cpu usage. I don't have an eta at this time, but I know it's being worked on.
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    Floyd,
    I've had some success recording things to my camcorder from one device to pass it to another device. It's time comsuming but it gets the job done, most times. I wish I had a better way. Any ideas, Applian?
    Joseph
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    Jeff,
    I have in the past used Pinnacle products with success. As the speed of the processors increased rendure time decrease. I was happy about that. Then after buying a very costly caputure board they discontinued support of it and I was not happy. However, the board worked great. Later I bought another Pinncle board that worked well with the less processors time required and worked with XP. I was again happy.
    With higher speeds and duel processor boards the card wouldn't work. A new program for these higher speeds was required now for XP and a faster display card. Now 1.6 GHz not fast enough then for capture? OK, now a Dual processor and new software and the industry moves into streaming and old ways of video production in in trouble and .....
    Ugh! We've got to get used to a life of learning. Computers wait for no man!
    Joseph
    Last edited by jsjohnston7; 05-05-2008 at 04:52 AM. Reason: clearity...I must have been asleep.

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    I wonder if we (as humans) will ever catch up...

    At any rate, you'll be happy to know that our developers are working on a version of Screencast that uses much LESS bandwidth. This would make recording netflix and similiar streams much less of a strain on your pc, and as a result of that..much more viewable.

    I don't have an ETA as of yet, but hopefully sooner as opposed to later...
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    I just purchased the "Record EVERYTHING" suite today.

    Both Replay A/V 8.42 and And Replay Media Catcher 2.3 were able to record a streaming Netflix movie.

    However, the movie was recorded as an ASF file. When I try to convert it to MP4 using Replay Converter so I can watch the movie on my iPod later, it only does the first 50K or so then says it's finished. This happens even when ReplayAV does the conversion (using Replay Converter I think.)

    I guess we're still waiting for the new version of screencast mentioned. It's been about four months since the last post and the latest version is 1.0.0.1 from three years ago.

    I'd also like to know why, when I use the wizard on the Applian website to find what to use to record Netflix, you tell me to use WM Capture, a program that you don't sell, support or anything else other than email market?

    Just FWIW I own WMRecorder and RMRecorder having bought them several years ago.

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