Files Downloaded from iTunes Music Store Won't Play

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Files Downloaded from iTunes Music Store Won't Play

Postby Guest » 04 Jan 2004 21:32

File types mp4a downloaded from iTunes Music Store Do Not Play on VLC .7.0. Any idea how I can get past this prevention ? I am sure the file is coded in such a way as to disallow reproduction due to copyright, but anyway I can at least get the file to play on VLC ?

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Postby Gibalou » 04 Jan 2004 22:43

Apparently those files are encrypted so can only be played through iTunes.
There is an app called QTFairUse which can decrypt them but I heard it produces headerless raw aac files so VLC will have problems playing them.

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Postby Guest » 06 Jan 2004 04:44

New code was checked into the CVS today (http://developers.videolan.org/cgi-bin/ ... t=VideoLAN) that automatically cracks the iTunes DRM. You can read more about it at The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34712.html).

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Postby Guest » 06 Jan 2004 04:53

Now all we need is for someone to compile the new code so that I can use it ;-).

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Postby Murray » 06 Jan 2004 09:53

No, you can access the nightly builds at
http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/build/

(Debian woody and Win32 versions only)

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Postby Anil » 06 Jan 2004 09:55

yeah but cvs is a bit broken these days, don't expect too much from these builds (latest one does not have a gui for example)
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Postby Guest » 06 Jan 2004 13:32

the latest CVS build works fine for me (and plays the DRM'd itunes files just fine) if you specify the skins interface in the command line like so:

vlc.exe -I skins

and drag and drop the file onto it

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Postby Guest » 26 Jan 2004 23:17

what's the status of this code today? is it working for people? exactly what functionality does it provide?

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Postby mrfett » 26 Jan 2004 23:36

i'm wondering also if this code works is in the mac build of vlc.
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Postby The DJ » 27 Jan 2004 02:36

The code works for a lot of people.
The status of the code for OSX is unknown.
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Re: Files Downloaded from VideoLAN Forum

Postby gapchu » 27 Jan 2004 16:32

(AVI)

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Postby jlj » 28 Jan 2004 19:11

i'm wondering also if this code works is in the mac build of vlc.
If you have an iPod, you can get the user key from your iPod under MacOS X by executing this from Terminal.app:

IPOD=/Volumes/$IPODNAME /path/to/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC /path/to/file.m4p

This functionality is only available in CVS, so you will have to compile VLC yourself or wait for 0.7.1.

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Postby mrfett » 29 Jan 2004 22:25

wow ok thanks for the info. i'll give it a whirl...
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