Netflix Blocking OBS Studio From Recording Video And Sound In Firefox, Edge and Chrome

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Deleted member 139962

Hey Guys

Just to let you know that Netflix is now blocking OBS Studio from recording any video or sound. I have tried it using Firefox version 94.0.2 – Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. They all worked just fine on November 30th, but as of December 1st, all that OBS Studio can capture is a blank screen. I have tried a three browser in safe mode, but no luck. I hope that you are aware of this problem and hope that you will find a solution to fix this.

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ufo1947
 
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Hi

Thank you for responding with your suggestions. I have already tried the suggestions that were included with the link that you provided without any success. Also, this does not address the issue of OBS Studio be blocked by Netflix in three separate browsers. I need to be able to store the captured video files on a separate hard drive in full high quality. The Netflix app only records at very low quality even if you set it do the highest available quality. As I said in my first message, all of this worked properly using OBS Studio until December 1st.

On another note: Now Netflix only works with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome (both of which I don’t like) Error messages are showing up when I try to play videos with Firefox version 94 saying that my browser is no longer supported and to upgrade to the latest version. I’ve already done that but the error messages continue. I know that this is a completely separate issue, but it support my theory that Netflix is now using some type of encryption that blocks certain browsers as well as OBS Studio.

I hope that someone out there at OBS Studio is aware of this problem.

Best Regards
ufo1947
 
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It's not that specifically OBS is blocked. It obviously happened Netflix applied DRM to their streams, and this is a generic Windows functionality to blank every attempt to read picture information from specified screen areas by 3rd party software. This blocks every screen reading process, probably even screenshots made by whatever screenshot function will be blank. Even capture cards grabbing the hdmi output of your PC will probably show a blank image where the video used to be.

It's technically not possible to circumvent this by just "fixing OBS". There is nothing broken within OBS, and there is no problem with OBS. There is nothing to fix, because it's working as intended.
 
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Thank you for explaining it to me. It’s very sad that this has happened, but I guess that’s just the way it’s going to be from now on. I’ll probably cancel Netflix and use Amazon Prime. OBS still works on that platform. For now ?????

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Michael
 
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ufo1947 said:
Hi

Thank you for explaining it to me. It’s very sad that this has happened, but I guess that’s just the way it’s going to be from now on. I’ll probably cancel Netflix and use Amazon Prime. OBS still works on that platform. For now ?????

Best Regards
Michael
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It does not.
Recording a movie from a streaming service/youtube/etc generally goes against their ToS, and in most countries is illegal as copyright infringement; even if it is solely for personal use, it is still considered piracy.
 
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FerretBomb said:
It does not.
Recording a movie from a streaming service/youtube/etc generally goes against their ToS, and in most countries is illegal as copyright infringement; even if it is solely for personal use, it is still considered piracy.
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Terms of service are brokered between the end user and the distributing entity, and is not wholly relevant to copyright law. It is also illegal in zero countries to record copyrighted content for personal use as per international copyright law.
 
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koala said:
It's not that specifically OBS is blocked. It obviously happened Netflix applied DRM to their streams, and this is a generic Windows functionality to blank every attempt to read picture information from specified screen areas by 3rd party software. This blocks every screen reading process, probably even screenshots made by whatever screenshot function will be blank. Even capture cards grabbing the hdmi output of your PC will probably show a blank image where the video used to be.

It's technically not possible to circumvent this by just "fixing OBS". There is nothing broken within OBS, and there is no problem with OBS. There is nothing to fix, because it's working as intended.
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hi so i wanted to screen record a show that's leaving netflix, but when i tried recording with obs it just gave me a black screen with only the captions turned on, so i didnt know anything about it until now and i looked into it only afterwards, and i wanted to know, even if my screen got blanked, would the netflix account get banned? even if i dont post the recording anywhere and i deleted it? and how long would it take for them to ban the account?
 
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anonymous dragon said:
hi so i wanted to screen record a show that's leaving netflix, but when i tried recording with obs it just gave me a black screen with only the captions turned on, so i didnt know anything about it until now and i looked into it only afterwards, and i wanted to know, even if my screen got blanked, would the netflix account get banned? even if i dont post the recording anywhere and i deleted it? and how long would it take for them to ban the account?
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Hello,

There is one way to solve this problem. Install Google Chrome and uncheck hardware acceleration.

It works.
 
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