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Capture movies from VuDu

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Does anyone know if it's possible?

VuDu is a site which streams Full HD movies to devices with a VuDu app or consoles like Xbox360 and PS3.

What I could find out when googling was that if using a stream capture software to save a raw stream file from them, it is encrypted and unplayable. What I thought is maybe it's possible to for example play a movie on a PS3 and plug the HDMI output into an HD PVR box or something and record it.

I would be extremely grateful if anybody knows anything and could help, because they do have some movies on there that me and dark_jedi are interested in turning into blu-rays and share with everybody.

For example Conan The Barbarian theatrical cut: http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/5007/Conan-the-Barbarian

(I did help DJ make a blu-ray of that one but we were unable to get the theatrical color timing so the VuDu version would be very useful.)

Also interested in The Night Of The Living Dead 1990: http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!overview/14626/Night-of-the-Living-Dead

The blu-ray release of that movie had been re-colored and darkened in a horrible way, crushing almost all shadow detail and removing almost all color but blue.

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I guess you could always use Virtualdub to capture the screen and save it with a lossless codec. Kind of a hack but it works.  I sometimes have problems capturing the video and audio at the same time though so I do a 2 pass.  Sadly it captures in real time so that'd be about 4 hours minimum for a 2 hour movie :(.

Have you tried Jdownloader?  Sometimes you can throw it a link and it'll download the file in a couple of minutes.  I know it works with vimeo and youtube etc.

Luke threw twice…maybe.

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Well the problem is that the 1080p versions of each movie won't play on computers, since they know we have the screen capture softwares like Fraps for example. They only stream them to consoles and such.

And like I said, if one downloads the raw file from them, it's encrypted and can't be used, otherwise it would've been pretty easy.

I don't have any new console or a HD PVR box so I can't try and record while streaming, that's why I'd like some help with this.

UPDATE: Seems it wasn't the theatrical version of Conan. They've put the wrong movie length info there.

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I am able to capture from Vudu lossless via HDMI, but sadly I don't have access to my setup. It sounds like you don't want anything from there anyway?