right, but what algesten originally said was (emphasis mine):
> _Problem is_ that grabbing the last frame buffer would mean you're doing it post decompression. To distribute something you grabbed like that you'd need to recompress it and then have a generation degradation of lossy compression.
In the context of getting a decent pirated copy, that's not really a problem due to how good those streams are.
That was my point, anyway.
An approximation of an approximation of a video is going to be worse than an approximation of a video.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression