Note that you don’t truly own any of the movies you “purchase” through Amazon. If you move to another country for example, you can’t take those movies with you. Nor can you actually download a digital copy. They don’t tell you this when you “buy” a movie; highly misleading. All you’re doing is paying for a long term rental to be kept within the Amazon ecosystem AND within a certain country jurisdiction. Kind of a scam.
Windows Only Info:
The Amazom Prime Application is a “Windows 10 App”, not a “programname.exe” in the traditional sense. Like all Windows 10 Apps, it is stored in in the WindowsApps folder on the drive location indicated in the Apps and Features control panel. Most of the ime it will be your C:\ drive.
Disregard everything you know about downloads and Application settings, Windows 10 Apps are highly integrated into Windows 10, and behave more like apps on a mobile phone, than traditional aplications, hence why Microsoft calls them “Äpps”.
You can amend where the App is installed, and hence the download location, by changing the drive on which the App is installed in the Settings on the Windows 10 Apps and Features control panel.
Downloads are stored in a Win 10 App-standard location under the WpSystem folder on the same drive. E.g. D:\WpSystem\S-1-5-21-3012567128-249577552-1523367803-1001\AppData\Local\Packages\AmazonVideo.PrimeVideo_pwbj9vvecjh7j\LocalState\Downloads\4a5e0293-42d1-4229-9c11-3e3f86c79e02
Downloads are DRM protected and are unplayable unless you view them with the APP, and are authorised to view them. Downloads are only useful if you have a problem streaming due to transient issues on the internet like congestion, spooling and the like. The downloaded files are not yours to keep.
Video stream capture using a 3rd party screen recorder is better if you want to bypass the DRM and make the download portable on any device. There may be some inherent loss of quality at higher resolutions, but that may be okay for you.
you buy the movie and you can not make a copy — lame — let me guess — you decide to cancel amozon — and you loose all you purchased movies — tru or false
Still pretty dissapointing that no matter what I download from Amazon Video it wont show up in my computers hard drive after looking it up in Search Everything. When I think ‘download’ I think being able to download directily to my PC & watch with Windows Media Player or Quicktime & be able to transfer it to an external storage device like a hard drive, flash drive or blank disk. Downloading only to watch offline on their app & nowhere else is nearly useless to me. I really hope Amazon someday makes it so we can just allow downloads to the hard drive so we can watch our content we payed for without having to use their app.
Thanks for the recommendations. I will try it. I once use TunesKit Screen Recorder to download the Amazon Prime video on my computer. It’s available for both Windows and Mac systems. Easy to use and the recording quality is quite good.
While your title references both PC and Mac, would be helpful to extend that distinction into your reviews of each software. For example, Playon is Windows only whereas Ukeysoft has versions for both OS.
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The Amazom Prime Application is a “Windows 10 App”, not a “programname.exe” in the traditional sense. Like all Windows 10 Apps, it is stored in in the WindowsApps folder on the drive location indicated in the Apps and Features control panel. Most of the ime it will be your C:\ drive.
Disregard everything you know about downloads and Application settings, Windows 10 Apps are highly integrated into Windows 10, and behave more like apps on a mobile phone, than traditional aplications, hence why Microsoft calls them “Äpps”.
You can amend where the App is installed, and hence the download location, by changing the drive on which the App is installed in the Settings on the Windows 10 Apps and Features control panel.
Downloads are stored in a Win 10 App-standard location under the WpSystem folder on the same drive. E.g. D:\WpSystem\S-1-5-21-3012567128-249577552-1523367803-1001\AppData\Local\Packages\AmazonVideo.PrimeVideo_pwbj9vvecjh7j\LocalState\Downloads\4a5e0293-42d1-4229-9c11-3e3f86c79e02
Downloads are DRM protected and are unplayable unless you view them with the APP, and are authorised to view them. Downloads are only useful if you have a problem streaming due to transient issues on the internet like congestion, spooling and the like. The downloaded files are not yours to keep.
Video stream capture using a 3rd party screen recorder is better if you want to bypass the DRM and make the download portable on any device. There may be some inherent loss of quality at higher resolutions, but that may be okay for you.