[mythtv-users] Can an iTunes TV download play on MythTV?

[Michael T. Dean]

Mark Hetherington wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:00 pm, Matthew K. Lee wrote:
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>>I've downloaded an episode of "The Office" from iTunes, and I'm trying
>>to play it under MythTV.  Unfortunately, it does not work.  Same goes
>>for mplayer.  Do I need a codec or something?  Or is it simply not
>>possible to play a download from iTunes under linux/MythTV?
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>>MOV: Found MPEG4 audio Elementary Stream Descriptor atom (51)!
>>Fourcc: drms
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>		^^^^^
>that'll be it! The four CC code is what specifies the codec to use to decode 
>it. Normally something like "divx" or "xvid" or "mp34". The fact this says 
>"drms" makes it sound like "Digitial Rights Managment <Something". So 
>basically it's encrypted, and can only be played in something that can 
>understand the proprietary format, and get the encryption keys. That 
>basically means it'll never play on an open source product. (If you have the 
>source you can modify it to give you the video/keys, defeating the point of 
>the drm). 
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Yeah.  You can find out all sorts of stuff about "drms" with Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bfourcc+%2B%22drms%22

Just don't read any of the links that are called "asleep.net - 
FairPlay"--doing so would be very, very bad!!!

And if you happen to search for:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B%22drms%22+%2B%22jon+lech+johansen%22

Definitely don't read *anything* from the nanocrew.net domain...  Doing 
so would be even worse.

Oh, and note that the "drms" is only the MPEG-4 audio stream (M4A).  The 
video stream uses the "drmi" "CODEC"--which is much newer.

Mike