Playing iTunes Protected AAC files is VLC

[Guest]

I've found that it does exactly what you describe on the PC.... but works fine on the mac

anyone found a way to get it to work on a PC?

[Guest]

I've found that it does exactly what you describe on the PC.... but works fine on the mac

anyone found a way to get it to work on a PC?

found out how to make it work, right after I posted that. make sure that the source file/s, and the destination location is not in a private directory (i.e. x:\Documents and Settings\username). verified on multiple PC's. Maybe now the coders can fix it

[Tevya]

I got the the protected Itunes songs to play in VLC and stream the files to a mp4 minus the DRM protection, but are these recompressed files or are they still compressed from Apple's original file?

I emailed the guy over MPEG4 and such. Here's what he said in reply to a question similar to yours:

"Basically: yes you could read the aac file from iTunes, and you can
save it without recompressing it as a .mp4 file. For now you are limited
to 1x but the next version (or the CVS) will go faster.
With the released version, all tags are lost (author,artist,...) with
the CVS/next version some meta/tags informations will be kept."

[mrfett]

wow if tags were kept that'd be sweet.

[Scrubb]

I've installed iTunes 4.5.0.31
I bought a song in M4P format.
I installed VLC stable 0.7.1
All Running on WinXP Pro


I tried playing the M4P. I got no audio and the only message I could find was: mp4 error: drms_init( priv ) failed

I read this entire thread and uninstalled VLC and upgraded to: 0.7.2-test1 out of the windows nightly builds.

In desperation I have manually created:
C:\Documents and Settings\$Username\vlc
C:\Documents and Settings\$Username\vlc\drms
C:\Documents and Settings\$Username\drms
C:\Documents and Settings\$Username\.drms

Still I get the same error as above and no audio.
I feel like I am very close but I am missing one critical thing.
Can someone please lend me a hand?

My procedure is simple.
a) Untar vlc
b) execute it from the untar'd directory
c) quickopen M4P

no luck.

Thanks in advance.

[The DJ]

iTunes is using a new key system in version 4.5 which VLC doesn't yet support.

[Scrubb]

iTunes is using a new key system in version 4.5 which VLC doesn't yet support.

Is this a pipe dream or is this under development? Just curious about the status of handling this next key system.

Thanks!
Scrubb

[The DJ]

it will be there eventually, when it gets cracked again. VLC depends on external projects for this. no ETA, no other info.

[jlj]

VLC does not depend on external projects for this.

Support for 4.5 will be in SVN later today (Wednesday).

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jlj

[jlj]

Build which includes FairPlay v2 support.

[TeanerTiner]

I downloaded the latest build and the files play correctly. However, I cannot get the file to be written out to disk. The article seems to have a slightly different interface and although I think I am doing it correctly, the output stream is not written to disk. Any ideas?

[Guest]

Any idea when the OS X version of VLC will have the ability to rescue one's keys? I'm not complaining mind you, I'd just rather not have to use Virtual PC for the task.

[jlj]

I downloaded the latest build and the files play correctly. However, I cannot get the file to be written out to disk. The article seems to have a slightly different interface and although I think I am doing it correctly, the output stream is not written to disk. Any ideas?

Try playfair or DeDRMS instead.

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jlj

[jlj]

Any idea when the OS X version of VLC will have the ability to rescue one's keys? I'm not complaining mind you, I'd just rather not have to use Virtual PC for the task.

The software I need to analyze PowerPC binaries costs a couple of hundred US dollars. Since I don't really have any other use for it, I haven't bought it yet. I rarely use my PowerMac, so the personal incentive is rather lacking. If I had the software, it would probably take 30-60 minutes to add support for using the user key store (SC Info.sidb) on MacOS X.

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jlj

[Guest]

The Playfair app running under OS X is able to retrieve keys from a connected iPod, provided the 2004-04-28 3.0 iPod software has not been installed.

[jlj]

The Playfair app running under OS X is able to retrieve keys from a connected iPod, provided the 2004-04-28 3.0 iPod software has not been installed.

VLC can do the exact same thing (playfair uses the FairPlay code from VLC). The latest nightly build also works with the new iPod firmware.

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jlj

[Guest]

Is the key store different on an iPod joined to PC versus a Mac? The procedure you point to does not work with an updated iPod hooked to Mac OS X.

[jlj]

Is the key store different on an iPod joined to PC versus a Mac?

No.

The procedure you point to does not work with an updated iPod hooked to Mac OS X.

Did you compile VLC yourself? How recent was your CVS/SVN checkout? I fixed a bug 2 days ago that prevented it from working on MacOS X.

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jlj

[olivier]

I am running build version 0.8.1 of VLC on Windows. I am getting the error

mp4 error: drms_init( priv ) failed

when trying to play mp4a files purchased from iTunes in November.

It looks from the previous postings that this problem was fixed back in May or so. Is it somehow the case that those fixes have not made it into the build version or, has there been some further changes by Apple in the encryption?