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Nobody
09-13-2006, 01:47 PM
Okay, here's the sitch:

I've bought and downloaded a bunch of tv shows from Apple iTunes and have already watched them once or twice.

Their format is *.m4v

This is a protected format. What I wanted to do was just burn them to DVD so I could watch them a second time on my nice big TV.

So far, nope.

I'll have to convert them to a different format, i suppose to get them onto a DVD that can be read by a standard Region 1 dvd player.

Any ideas?

I have:
Toast Titanium 7 [full]
DVD Studio Pro 3 [full]
iDVD
some other stuff...

?

:cheers:
Transcend
09-13-2006, 02:26 PM
Best mac video conversion tool in existence.

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
Nobody
09-13-2006, 02:58 PM
Best mac video conversion tool in existence.

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

Won't work as-is with DRM protected files, i guess.

It returns an error at the start of conversion:

"The command exited with a non-zero status. (1)"
Ridemonkey
09-15-2006, 03:10 PM
It might be worth trying to burn it straight from iTunes. I haven't done it myself, but you can burn regular CDs from DRM protected files, it might make sense to assume that you can do the same with DVDs. Just a thought.
Transcend
09-15-2006, 03:16 PM
Hmm, i haven't been looking into it, but I am sure there is a way to bypass the DRM on those videos.
Nobody
09-15-2006, 03:21 PM
It might be worth trying to burn it straight from iTunes. I haven't done it myself, but you can burn regular CDs from DRM protected files, it might make sense to assume that you can do the same with DVDs. Just a thought.

iTunes [unhacked] will only burn Audio CD's, MP3 Mixed Audio CD's and Data DVD's - which, to my understanding, only play in computers anyway.

I think I'm stuck with trying to figure out how to crack the protection on the m4v files.
Transcend
09-15-2006, 03:22 PM
http://www.dvd-tool.com/drm-removal.html

Seen some great reviews of it. Windows only however and nly for audio...so not much help.

From some quick searches, it sounds like none of the DRM strippers have been updated for video yet.
Nobody
09-15-2006, 03:27 PM
http://www.dvd-tool.com/drm-removal.html

Seen some great reviews of it. Windows only however and nly for audio...so not much help.

From some quick searches, it sounds like none of the DRM strippers have been updated for video yet.

VirtualPC, here we go...
Transcend
09-15-2006, 03:31 PM
VirtualPC, here we go...

Do you have an intel mac? Parallels rules on my macpro now.
Nobody
09-15-2006, 03:35 PM
no, i'm still working on G4's and G5's... no budget to replace sub-1-year-old machines for stuff like this...
Transcend
09-15-2006, 03:39 PM
Gotcha. Everytime i go back to my G4 powerbook i want to throw it out the window now.
Nobody
09-15-2006, 04:17 PM
Hey, my Mac Mini 1.5 G4 gives me no complaints, but then, I'm just Photoshop CS1 and some audio stuff. For the big-assed video i'm on a dual G5 2.5...

I seldom do windows for anything anymore...
Toshi
09-15-2006, 06:15 PM
http://www.topvideopro.com/guide/how_to_convert_protected_m4v_m4p_aa_m4b.htm

http://www.hymn-project.org/
Transcend
09-15-2006, 07:48 PM
Tunebite (your first link) is what I sent him before. Appears to be the only app so far to do video as well as audio.