Movies off iTunes

TheJadeArcAngel · Post by **TheJadeArcAngel** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:41 am

.O_o- is there ant known way to break the encription.protection these little buggers are under? I Own 'em' I wanna edit with them!

I think they're encoded in the .MP4 format thats been going around lattely ( why did I say that like it's a flu bug? )

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:23 am

Please read the forum rules.
It is strictly forbidden to talk about illegal things.

There may be a way, but there are also better ways to get your footage (buying the DVDs for example or get non protected footage).

Downloading movies from iTunes is a shot in your own knee if they are protected so forgett about it.

However, have you tried to get the footage into VitualDubMod with a Avi-synth script? Maybe it isn´t protected after all.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:43 am

-Bauzi- wrote:Please read the forum rules.
It is strictly forbidden to talk about illegal things.

from what i can tell, the only law he's planning to break is making an amv. he owns the files

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:50 am

Minion wrote: from what i can tell, the only law he's planning to break is making an amv. he owns the files

oO Damn it... I´m such a fool XD
So it´s just like ripping a dvd to get the file...

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:51 am

-Bauzi- wrote:However, have you tried to get the footage into VitualDubMod with a Avi-synth script? Maybe it isn´t protected after all.

Purchases from the iTunes store are always encrypted. Back when the videos could be streamed for free, those weren't (although they were a bitch to get ahold of until a method for converting the URLs surfaced), but not anymore. Encrypted video files carry the .m4v extension, confusingly, since Apple uses that for other non-encrypted files also.

QTSource throws an error, although I was thinking (since the way I understand it, QTSource simply redirects output from Quicktime's decoders) it might be able to modify the source to point to the proper handlers that could allow conversion...that's not true decryption, though. I expect the chances of this coming to fruition, however, are pretty much nil due to how much of a legal headache that would cause for those involved (and QTSource hasn't been updated in a while, either).

My suggestion would be that unless you want to screencap the video with tunebite or FRAPS, you'll have to wait until the current iTunes decryption software is updated to allow freeing video as well. And who knows when that'll happen - apparently it's not as simple to get the video from memory as it is to get the audio the same way.

I've heard talk of a way of getting the audio through some trick with iMovie (since the decryption software is Windows-only), though, so maybe it'd be possible to apply that to the video stream too. Again, this isn't true decryption, but if it works it would allow the footage to be used without screencap software.