Capture Silverlight video

Question:

I am trying to capture a streaming video from a site that uses Microsoft Silverlight, I’ve tried many tools but nothing works. Anyone have any idea how to save a streaming Silverlight video to hard drive?

I just want to capture NBC Olympic streams. As I know, it uses Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. Is there a way to capture Silverlight video to HDD?

I’m trying to grab Silverlight video from a site so that I can watch the videos offline. Is it possible to rip Silverlight video to local computer?

Answer:

Silverlight, a web application framework owned by Microsoft, is just similar with Adobe flash video player. Though probably there are very few websites that use Silverlight to play a video, I received many complaints about how to capture Silverlight video.

Streaming Video Capture is the great software tool to enable you to quickly capture Silverlight streaming video, rip Silverlight video, record Silverlight video and save Silverlight video to your hard drive. It is complete program designed to capture streaming video from YouTube-like video sites and also offer the video convert function which allows you to convert Silverlight video to various video/audio formats like MP4, 3GP, MOV, etc. for iPod or iPhone.

Tutorial on capture Silverlight video with Streaming Video Capture software

Capturing streaming video allows you to play it offline at your convenient time. Learn how to easily capture Silverlight video using this high-quality Streaming Video Capture program.

1. First you need to download Streaming Video Capture, install and launch it.

2. Before capture Silverlight video stream, click “Settings” in the Streaming Video Capture window to perform the setup.

3. Start to play a Silverlight video. Whenever you begin playing a video in your web browser, the program will automatically start to capture it in the background. So, capture Silverlight streaming video from web is super easy, you don’t have to find and paste URL link – it capture and save Silverlight video to computer automatically!

See how easy it is to capture video from Silverlight player with Streaming Video Capture! Also you could use it to capture video from any online source regardless of what format.

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Convert Silverlight video

Video convert is another important part of this program. Click “Convert” switch to the video converter section, you can start your video conversion now. There are many options displayed in the profile’s drop-down, you can choose the output format as “iPod MPEG4 Video”, “PS3 DivX Video” or others, set up the output path and click “Start” to convert the downloaded Silverlight videos.

Another method I know is capture Silverlight video with Video Download Capture

Sure there are many other tools available to record Silverlight video, capture Silverlight video and save Silverlight video. Video Download Capture is another tool which also helps you capture Silverlight video stream. It supports almost all video sharing sites out there. And the inbuilt video converter allows you to convert video into MP4, AVI, MOV, 3GP and MP3 file.

Simply copy and paste the URL of the Silverlight video and click “Add to download”. Video Download Capture is definitely one of my favorite programs to capture Silverlight video.