Ripping Video Stream from Internet Connected / Networked BluRay Player...

[salinesky]

Greetings,

I was hoping that someone of wise knowledge might be able to point me in the right direction.

Yesterday I installed a BluRay player (Sony BDP-S570) by connecting it to my Belkin Router via a direct Ethernet cable. Everything works great, I was able to link it to my netflix account and watch movies through them.

Two questios: How do I go about capturing the video stream so that I can save it on my harddrive? I mean, the BluRay player is technically a device on my network so shouldn't I be able to access it's storage, data, ect.?

And, when playing an actual bluray disc, how could i rip that disc onto my harddrive.

Hopefully someone will have an easier way than other than buying a new videocard and then connecting the video-out cables to the laptop. I am hoping there is some way to achieve this solely over the network.

ps. Under "Computer" I am able to see both its IP and mac address, if that matters. Though I cannot access it as I would an external drive.

Suggestions are very much appreciated.

[jman98]

You can neither record Netflix movies nor rip BluRay discs for free. Just want to be clear about that up front.

You'll need a streaming media recorder of some type to record Netflix movies. None of the free ones can do this particular job. You'll have to buy something like Replay Video Capture or some similar program. And note that you HAVE to do the streaming on your PC and NOT on your BluRay player to even do that.

You have to buy either AnyDVD HD or DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip BluRay discs. I'd recommend AnyDVD as the DVDFab people are infamous for nickel and diming you to death with their product. Note that a very small number of movies (mostly but not limited to Sony Pictures) protected by something called Cinavia currently cannot be successfully ripped. DVDFab has a workaround that does work - for now. Many smart people who understand the inner working of BluRay have expressed great skepticism about this workaround and warned that since it does not actually solve the Cinavia problem but simply works around it (temporarily) that such rips may be completely unplayable in a few more years. I'm not sure why. I'm just passing on what little I know.