Wes wrote:
>On Oct 20, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Marc Chrusch wrote:
>
> >
> > So who has recommendations for the best streaming-video-with-audio
> > capture software that ignores any brain-dead DRM?
> >
>
>"streaming-video-with-audio capture software" sounds like "widest
>longest steepest" to me, so I'm not exactly sure exactly what you
>mean, but I would venture to answer, "QuickTime."

To clarify....

SkipressTV is offering movies for $10. Checking their site I see, as 
I suspected, that they deliver their on-demand/pay-per-view content 
in Windoze format, played through an embedded Win Media Player on the 
delivery page. WMF (windows) format allows the content provider to 
disable the "Save media as file" capability of the win MP. Via 
embedded DRM, they can also cause the media to "expire" after a 
certain time period.

So what is needed is 3rd party s/w that can capture the incoming 
video/ sync'd audio stream to a local file that does not include the 
DRM expriation. I know there are a number of programs that do this 
with varying degrees of quality/success/cost. I was asking if anyone 
had specific recommendations for something that
* works well
* is free or reasonable cost
* doesn't require a substantial learning of digital video technology

I suppose it could be worse. Skipress could have decided to use the 
pure evil of Real Media Player (which I have banished from all my machines).

-marc 

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