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Is it possible to save Netflix movies to the hard drive so we can watch them in the car when we don't have internet access?

IIUC, on some commercial devices, using the official Netflix app you can download movies or shows to the device and watch offline. The iPhone along with the Netflix app is just one device that allows you to watch off line. However that downloaded movie/show is still DRM encompassed so can’t be copied to another device for consumption.

All these open source software systems have a hard time working with the DRM systems used by these closed source streaming companies. Luckily some clever people have worked out how to use windervine to enforce the DRM that many streaming sites use. The encrypted stream is decrypted as long as the video path is considered to be protected. So to gain access to the stream you need to circumvent the protection that windervine provides or presumably circumvent the protected video path. It’s all outside my area of understanding.

Obviously no one on this forum with greater understanding is going to help you with such requests as it’s outside the forum terms of use, so go elsewhere if you want to discuss such.

And to make matters worse, it seems Google is taking a harder line with o/s projects use of windervine (if I’ve understood the discussions correctly). So the basic add-on functions that work with Netflix may not continue to work in the future which is sad for us honest consumers of video stream services.

I just wish Netflix would actually support Kodi with their add-ons that allow full Netflix functionality on all Kodi platforms while allowing us to export our favourite movies and shows (as stream files) to our local library. But they don’t seem to want to provide such support.

Oh, and if you are watching video while driving, shame on you, I’d have you incarcerated while you reevaluate your unsafe behaviour.