[Idea] LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring Netflix Rip.

[44rh1n]

Update 2 on FlixGrab: After further investigating, I have figured out that some 1080p content is ONLY available via Microsoft Edge (as far as internet browsers go). In Chrome, for example, certain films can only be viewed in 480p; but those same films can be streamed in 1080p when using Edge. FOTR is one of those films. It streams in HD in Edge, but only 480p in Chrome. So this leads me to believe that FlixGrab has the same limitations as Chrome. Only certain content (such as the Netflix originals) can be captured in 1080p. But movies like FOTR cannot. Lame.

That sucks big time, but might be possible to work around by the developers if they care enough. Browser detection can sometimes be faked.

I'd definitely let them know about it including all the details, like URLs etc.

Their customer support just responded to my email asking why the movie was unable to be recorded in HD. Their response was that Netflix doesn't offer it in HD. lol. So I just responded to them and explained the Microsoft Edge situation. I gave them all the information they should need, so hopefully it is something that they can implement in a software update. 

But I guess for now we'll have to figure out another way to capture this in HD. 

I did capture it with FlixGrab in 480p just to compare the framerate and timing, and it's 23.976fps just like the blu-ray, so all the frames match up perfectly. So that's great. So I guess we just need to figure out which capture cards (when paired with an HDMI splitter) can capture at 23.976fps. Lots of the ones that I've seen mention the ability to capture at 30 and 24, but no mention of 23.976 specifically.

[Feallan]

Update 2 on FlixGrab: After further investigating, I have figured out that some 1080p content is ONLY available via Microsoft Edge (as far as internet browsers go). In Chrome, for example, certain films can only be viewed in 480p; but those same films can be streamed in 1080p when using Edge. FOTR is one of those films. It streams in HD in Edge, but only 480p in Chrome. So this leads me to believe that FlixGrab has the same limitations as Chrome. Only certain content (such as the Netflix originals) can be captured in 1080p. But movies like FOTR cannot. Lame.

That sucks big time, but might be possible to work around by the developers if they care enough. Browser detection can sometimes be faked.

I'd definitely let them know about it including all the details, like URLs etc.

It's not just browser detection, Edge has baked in DRM

[deleted user]

Update 2 on FlixGrab: After further investigating, I have figured out that some 1080p content is ONLY available via Microsoft Edge (as far as internet browsers go). In Chrome, for example, certain films can only be viewed in 480p; but those same films can be streamed in 1080p when using Edge. FOTR is one of those films. It streams in HD in Edge, but only 480p in Chrome. So this leads me to believe that FlixGrab has the same limitations as Chrome. Only certain content (such as the Netflix originals) can be captured in 1080p. But movies like FOTR cannot. Lame.

That sucks big time, but might be possible to work around by the developers if they care enough. Browser detection can sometimes be faked.

I'd definitely let them know about it including all the details, like URLs etc.

It's not just browser detection, Edge has baked in DRM

Mh I see. Color me not surprised.

Makes you wonder why they don't protect their own productions the same way ... almost as if ... they WANTED them to be pirated.

[44rh1n]

For my captures I use an Avermedia LGP Lite with a software patch that removes HDCP (so no splitter). My cable box runs the Netflix app and can output 24p, which the LGP Lite can natively capture (so no pulldown or dropped frames). It encodes the HDMI stream to high bitrate h.264 which is then recorded to PC via USB2.0 so it's not particularly resource intensive but is not a standalone device. The resultant h.264 file is basically so transparent to the source as to be lossless, but it has to be transcoded again for blu ray compliance etc.

Woah, cool! Any chance you'd have time (and/or be willing) to do a full capture of The Fellowship of the Ring from Netflix?

[zoidberg]

I'd love to be able to help but I'm in the UK and LOTR isn't on Netflix here (yet). I will keep an eye out for it though should it pop up.

[44rh1n]

I'd love to be able to help but I'm in the UK and LOTR isn't on Netflix here (yet). I will keep an eye out for it though should it pop up.

Ahh gotcha. Sounds good. Thanks!

[zoidberg]

No worries. Quick question, is Die Hard: With A Vengeance on your Netflix? There's a chance that if it is streaming it could be the new master.

[Beber]

Wait, what? There's a new Die Hard 3 master?

[zoidberg]

The first three Die Hards were all remastered a while back but Fox won't release them, although Die Hard has been on Netflix (and now on Apple 4K TV along with Predator).

[Beber]

I read about that on Blu-ray.com, that Fox doesn't believe in the old catalogue titles on the UHD market and remastered Blu-ray market. That's why they stick with new releases on UHD format. Let's hope the Disney/Fox deal is validated so that Disney releases all our dear movies the way they should be seen.