How can I convert iTunes M4V to MPG?

[STOVK]

Hello All,

Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum, so please endulge me.

I figured I purchased my videos legit from iTunes, why the stupid propriety video format?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good program (Free would be a bonus) that converts iTunes M4V videos into MPEG or any other universal format?


As always,

Thanks!

[removals]

Man I have the same question but i solve it using converter. Just type converter and format you have problem which and then download it.

[Dark Shikari]

Hello All,

Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum, so please endulge me.

I figured I purchased my videos legit from iTunes, why the stupid propriety video format?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good program (Free would be a bonus) that converts iTunes M4V videos into MPEG or any other universal format?


As always,

Thanks!Their format isn't proprietary--the video is H.264 and the audio is AAC, both of which are internationally standardized formats by the MPEG group (H.264 is MPEG-4 Part 10, and AAC is MPEG-4 Part 3).

However, I would suspect that the M4V files are DRM-encrusted, which you will likely need to strip before other software can play them. There are a number of programs for this purpose; I'm not much of an expert on removing DRM as I don't buy products with DRM to begin with, but there are plenty of people here who can probably help you with that specifically.

[JoeShrubbery]

AFAIK none of the software out there to strip Apple's Fairplay DRM off of music purchases work for video files. If someone finds one that does LET ME KNOW!!!

For now, I've made do with a roundabout way of converting the videos using the screen capture functionality recently added to Virtualdub (video capture mode -> set device to screen capture). It's clunky, complicated to get set up just right, loses picture quality (unavoidable when recompressing between highly compressed video formats), requires some pretty hefty hardware (if you don't have a dual-core processor, forget it), but works well enough for me. Best results I find are doing screencaps with a lossless codec then processing afterwards to get the cropping and encoding perfect. If you're doing full-screen capping you'd probably want to drop your screen resolution, or you can set a custom resolution to cap under video->set custom format and adjust the pixel offset under video -> source. After you get the hang of it, it works great for converting Flash animations to AVI as well.

[Dark Shikari]

You could also use FRAPS for the screen capture if iTunes uses the Overlay renderer.

[Furry9]

Using converter is a good way. As i know all purchased converters remove DRM and it's easy-to-use tool to convert almost all commonly used files. Personally I use converter TuneCab. It converts video perfect, I convert protected Windows Media Video (WMV) files to regular MPEG4 files (mp4) for iPod.