Removing DRM from iPlayer video?

[Zoots]

Does anyone do it/know how to do it properly? I've been running around in circles with it for a couple of days and it's doing my nut in. I settled on using Aimersoft Total Video Converter - which doesn't remove DRM, rather more records the screen. It does a good job, but insists on converting it then, and the audio goes out of skew (suppose I could fix that easy enough really).
It's just some 11 mins long kids stuff that's new and not around anywhere and they're mad about it. I just want to put them on the Popcorn Hour.

Anyone help me out?

[mc.dodd]

worth a try?

Daniussoft DRM Converter v2.6.8


Homepage


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Input Formats


Standard Video M4V, AVI, MP4, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, ASF, RM, RMVB, DAT, VOB, MOV, FLV, MKV, DV, NUT, H.264, NSV, MOD, TOD, DVR-MS
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HD Video HD AVI(Xvid, MSMPEGV3), HD MKV(H.264, Xvid), HD WMV(WMV1, WMV2, WMV3), HD MOV(H.264, Xvid), HD MPG(MPEG-2 VIDEO), HD ASF(MSMPEGV3), HD MP4(High Profile H.264, MP4 VIDEO, H.264, Xvid)
Audio MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE, MKA, AU, AIFF, FLAC, M4B


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iPod, iPod Touch 4, iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod shuffle, iPod touch, iPod Touch 3G
Apple iPad, iPhone, iPhone 3G, Apple TV
PSP, PS3
Xbox, Xbox 360
Nexus One MPEG-4(*.MP4), Android MPEG-4(*.mp4), HTC T-Mobile G1, HTC G2 Magic, HTC Hero, HTC Tattoo, HTC DROID ERIS, , LG Prime, Droid2, HTC Aria Motorola CLIQ, Motorola droid, T-MOBILE myTouch 3G, SamSung i7500, Sumsang Vibrant, Sumsang Captivate
BlackBerry Storm 9630/9550/9530, BlackBerry 8800/8830/8820, BlackBerry Bold 9700/9000
BlackBerry Curve 8900/ 8530/ 8520/ 8300/ 8310/ 8320/ 8330/ 8350i
BlackBerry Pearl Flip8220/ Flip8230/ 8100/ 8110/ 8120/ 8130, Blackberry Torch 9800
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General MP4 players: Archos, Creative Zen,Zune, Zune HD, iRiver, etc.
Window Mobile device: Pocket PC, Smart Phone, PDA, etc.




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Supported OS Windows XP/ Vista 32-bit /Vista 64-bit / Windows 7
Processor 1GHz or above Intel or AMD CPU
Free hard disk space 1GB above
RAM 1GB above




New Features about Daniusoft DRM Converter version 2.6.8


1. Fully supported iTunes 10.1.
2. Enhanced the conversion quality of drm output files.
3. Modified the copyright information to 2011.


will make available if req

[mc.dodd]

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Serial also works in v4.0


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[mc.dodd]

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25 MB


Info:
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[BertRoot]

Fucking hell you are on fire this morning mc.dodd!!

[Zoots]

Star mate. Cheers.
I've tried the first one of those and I imagine the others are the same but I'll have a look when I get back to the PC. They seem to be screen recorders and converters the same as this - if so I might as well use this one as it's working (of sorts). I was wondering if there's anyway of doing it without screen recording to be honest, the way you'd strip DRM from say, an ebook. But I think I'm on a hiding to nothing with that. I read some stuff about keys and licenses but I run myself ragged trying to understand any if it - the sites/forum posts I found were all 4-5 years old and about as clear as mud.

[Zoots]

Just to add I use a torrent site that rips UK kids TV shows from iPlayer en masse. I can't believe they record them all and convert them all perfectly one by one.

[mc.dodd]

Star mate. Cheers.
I've tried the first one of those and I imagine the others are the same but I'll have a look when I get back to the PC. They seem to be screen recorders and converters the same as this - if so I might as well use this one as it's working (of sorts). I was wondering if there's anyway of doing it without screen recording to be honest, the way you'd strip DRM from say, an ebook. But I think I'm on a hiding to nothing with that. I read some stuff about keys and licenses but I run myself ragged trying to understand any if it - the sites/forum posts I found were all 4-5 years old and about as clear as mud.

I think that's what Tunebite does matey...
if you require the links let me know and I'll make them available

[Zoots]

I'd deffo like a look at TuneBite mate, yeah.

I've just played around with the codecs in Aimersoft and actually managed to get a good quality video with audio in synch, but I'd appreciate giving another app a try at the moment.

Cheers.

[mc.dodd]

sorted

[Zoots]

Cheers mate. I've had a play with it - it will do DRM on music and (presumably) video that's (presumably) not encoded as the iPlayer videos are. Maybe iPlayer stuff is *more* than just DRM, I dunno. The video files you download from iPlayer work for 30 days and only work in the iPlayer desktop application.
Tunebite can grab the media stream (no need really as iPlayer allows you to download it anyway) and give the video to you, or convert it - but it's garbled in both cases.

It can screen record the same as the other one so I'll have a weigh up which does the better job.

[mc.dodd]

I'll look into it a little more for you

[Zoots]

Don't bust a gut mate - really.
After a bit of testing, Tunebite screen grabs and encodes on the fly (the other wouldn't..) so after 11 mins I've got a decent quality XviD.
I'm right with that.

[EvilBoB]

Doubt this still works but renaming the video file used to break the DRM on iPlayer vids Mind you that's going back a few years so I'm sure they sorted that out.

[Zoots]

Haha! If only it was that easy mate. The encoded MP4 doesn't even output much in GSpot, beyond the fact it's an MP4 and an ISMA Encrypted/Protected video.

[Zoots]

Well, I stumbled upon this and can't quite understand how I missed it before...

Get_iPlayer.

It pulls the iPhone feeds down which are DRM free. Some of them are supposedly HD so not all low quality (I just grabbed Frozen Planet @ 334mb. Not HD but fine for watching on portable media player).
The ones I want actually are low quality, but they look fine on the kids 26" TV.

http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer
This is the original page/author.

The project has been kept up HERE http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer...t_iplayer.html and there's a Windows installer.
You don't need to use a command line, you can use the Web PVR Manager. Basically a search page in the install folder (opens up at http://127.0.0.1) which throws up a list of all manner of anything you search for with umpteen parameters. Click play or record and the FLV file comes down then quickly converts back to the iPhone MP4 format. There's all sorts of discussions about how to get the higher quality files but I'm not there just yet.

[Gunnzie]

I'm resurrecting an old thread to find out what is the best way of doing this currently?

[Zoots]

The post above. Really is the best and as far as I know the only sure fire way.
I've had some success with screen capping too.