Decrypting .m4v videos from iTunes

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Decrypting .m4v videos from iTunes

Post by ezilg »

Hello, I have some .m4v videos from iTunes, which I bought.
Moviplayer tells me : The stream in encrypted and decryption is not supported.
Does anybody have a solution for this ?
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Re: Decrypting .m4v videos from iTunes

Post by xenopeek »

From Wikipedia entry on M4V:
The copyright of M4V files may be protected by using Apple's FairPlay DRM copy protection. To play a protected M4V file, the computer needs to be authorized (using iTunes) with the account that was used to purchase the video.
So if you want to play these movies, you will have to use iTunes (the Windows version may possibly work on Wine).

If you need further help with that, please make a new topic requesting help with installing iTunes on Wine. As this topic might otherwise get suggestion to perform illegal computer activities, such as circumventing the DRM on these movies, I'm locking this topic.
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