Has anyone used a capture card on a desktop PC, for making a copy of an Amazon Prime movie or TV show ?
What's the best capture card for getting a copy, that is as-close-as-possible in quality to the source ?
I've managed to successfully use VPN to watch stuff on US Amazon Prime, but want to keep a personal copy just-in-case Amazon decides to crack down & block my VPN provider.
Thanks.
Can you give me a hint on the 'other options' ? :-)
Do you mean capture software ? Do they give good results ? Do you know any good ones ?
VPN and torrents.
Sadly, the type of stuff that I'm after, usually has no seeders.
@vikvance: What kind of stuff? If it's more obscure TV/Movie content you can probably get an invite to a private server which has it.
Give us an example?
OBS studio?
Plenty of people our there have likely already done it and put it on the internet already.
Much easier to just go find it there..
I've done a lot of searching already. :-)
The ones I'm interested in are very hard-to-find cult & independent movies from the late 80s & 90s.
A few of them came out on (now out-of-print) DVD, but the DVD quality is much worse than the quality of the versions on Amazon.
Use screen capture software. I use this to stream my screen but you can record also. Guess it would work for what you want.
Firefox has a heap of good plugins that I use for ripping stuff for when I want it off-line. Just go to extensions and search video downloaders
Windows game bar? No idea what the quality is like though.
Thanks guys for your replies.
So, I did some more googling & finally understood that PC processors & graphic cards are now powerful enough to capture internal sources & capture cards are only needed for capturing external video sources. (I guess I was still living in the 90s, when a capture card was a requirement to capture any video.)
I did a test with nVidia Geforce Experience, and it captures without any apparent loss of quality, and I think running Handbrake on the output file would do a good job of reducing the file size.
Why use a capture card? There's plenty of other options out there to do what you want, which are 10x easier.