Quicktime Copy protection?

[dvdcrazy.net]

Anyone that knows how to remove the Quicktime Copy protection?
Like the one on Monsters Inc bloopers or trailer from their site!

[Sefy]

I didn't even know it had protection, and I converted the Spider-Man and Monsters Inc trailers to VCD without a problem using TMPGEnc.

[dvdcrazy.net]

Thats what I tried! TMPGEnc.

[Sefy]

Do you have the QTReader.VFP for TMPGEnc ? that's what I have to enable it to handle QT/MOV Files.

[dvdcrazy.net]

Sure do!
It says illegal floating decimal point calculation order! I've done other quicktime movies without problem!

[LighthouseJ]

Uninstall Quicktime 5, install Quicktime 4 from somewhere. Then convert the file normally. That should work, it has for me.

[Sefy]

If the file is QuickTime 5, then Quicktime 4 will not be able to play it, what you can do, if you have the Pro version, is to export the file to AVI and then encode it, or give me a download link, and i'll try to encode and tell you how it goes on my system.

[liquid217]

just a comment, almost all the star wars clip and commentaries on http://www.starwars.com are protected also. Ive done some research to find out what is causing this, and appartently, quicktime will "lock" the audio. I happen to have Sonic foundry's Vegas software and i was able to drop the quicktime file (acquired with Streambox) into vegas and i am able to work with the video. an alternative would be to record the audio with an audio recorder utility from the streaming web site and "remux" it.

[dvdcrazy.net]

Thats the problem! You can even save it with pro 5 because its protected!

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/monstersinc/index2.html

[Sefy]

I'll check it out and let you know what I find!

[dvdcrazy.net]

Cool!
Thanx alot!

[Sefy]

It's still being downloaded (I got a 56k modem), so as soon as it's done, i'll report what ever happens.

[mcdermd]

How to save QT video? First you'll need QTPro then here's the short version (without pics, etc..):

1. Open up sw.com (or whatever you're getting) and let the video completely download.

2. Go to your Temporary Internet Files and find the movie file (if you show
details and sort by last accesed, it should be a large file on top)

3. Copy (don't move) the movie file from Temoprary Internet Files to your
desktop

4. Open up a Quicktime player (just a blank QT player - it'll usually load
up QT Hot Picks or something)

5. Drag and drop the movie copy from your desktop onto the QT player window.

6. Go to "Edit--> Delete Tracks" and delete all but the video and sound
tracks (there may be sprite, usher and possibly error)

7. Go to "Edit --> Enable Tracks" and enable the video and sound tracks

8. Go to "File --> Save As..." and select "Save as self contained movie",
give it a file name and hit "Save".

9. You should now have a working copy that you can manipulate however you want (re-encode, edit, etc).

The only hitch is sometimes the movie file will be downloaded to your Temp directory (but that's not the case with most all of them). And sometimes they get really nasty by making QT delete the file from your Temp folder *before* it closes. When this happens:

1. Close everything *except* the window with the QT movie in it.

2. Now, simulate a power failure (push the rest button on your computer). This makes sure QT never has a chance to delete it.

3. When the machine re-boots, the file should be a .tmp file in your Temp folder. rename it to a .mov and you should be in business.

One more intersting thing about saving these thing's you'll want to know. I
explained this process to a guy and he claimed that when he drag and dropped the movie file into the player, it gave him the error message and opened sw.com in a browser as usual. My system at home running Win2000 did not do that. So I tried it here at work running NT4 and sure enough, it would only open the error message (or give you the "This movie does not allow saving" deal), so here's what you do if this happens:

1. Open the QT Sample.mov (comes with QT player - should be in the Quicktime directory)

2. Drag and drop the copy of the sw.com video file into the window. This
basically appends the sample.mov with the movie info from sw.com

3. Delete all the tracks except "video1" and "sound1" (the sw.com tracks we want)

4. Move the "punch in" slider (the tiny triangle on the left below the
timeline bar) to the beginning and the "punch out" slider (the tiny triangle
on the right below the timeline bar) to the end of the QT sample portion
(the beginning of the sw.com video).

5. Go to "Edit --> Cut". This cuts the sample.mov movie section out of the
movie you're creating.

5. Go to "File --> Save As..." select "Save as self contained movie", give
it a file name and hit Save.

I just used sample.mov as an example because of it's short length but you
can use any "unlocked" movie file for this. Do keep in mind that that you can also select the "Get Movie Properties" to edit the movie header info (title, etc)

The main reason I did this was to have clean files to convert into other
formats, such as DivX or VCD complient mpeg1.

Good Luck.

[Lextorite]

All you guys are over looking one excellent program that I have been using to convert my .mov trailers collection to VCD.

Two simple words...EO VIDEO. This program will encode to mpg/avi without all the vfp crap that tmpg needs.

[dvdcrazy.net]

I had no problem saving them! I knew about thoose tricks! Thanx anyway! The problem was converting them in TMPGEnc because of the Copy protection they have in their soundtrack of the video.

But I can tell you that it worked fine in EO Video!

What codec do you recomend and is there any mpeg2 codecs availible for EO Video? What settings for avi and so on are the best!

I think the vcd quality I got was very bad!

Thanx guys so far!

[mcdermd]

I'm telling you, you don't have to use EO, just use QT. If you follow my instructions, you end up with a clean, rippable file.

[liquid217]

mcdermd: Thank you for your help. you tutorial concerning the sw movies were right on, although i believe you forgot one point. After you delete the sample video, you need to enable the last two tracks. for some reason, they get turned off, and need to be reenabled. again, thanks for the input

[marcusaxavier]

BTW, I found a site that has all of the Star Wars episode II trailers already in mpg format. Some are reallt large (25MB), but the quality is good. http://www.supershadow.com/starwarsepisode2/trailers.html

I Know it's not Monsters, Inc., but it's something

[liquid217]

thanks for the link, gut im going for the "behind the scenes" stuff and R2D2's "beneath the dome". really stupid stuff, but it works out better if i just watch it on the big screen

[dvdcrazy.net]

mcdermd:
It still dont work!
I get the illegal floating decimal point calculation order message!

[liquid217]

dvdcrazy.net: can you even view the quicktime video on your harddrive or are you referring to converting it to mpg? where did that error message come from?

[liquid217]

dvdcrazy.net: try the eo video demo. i just tried your qt file in it and it converted fine. another alternative is to use qucktime pro to convert it to uncompressed avi, then use tmpgenc. I also got the same error with the quicktime plugin with tmpgenc. hope that works for you

[dvdcrazy.net]

liquid217:
I get the message in TMPGEnc!
I've done it in EO Video with bad vcd quality and I want it converted to DVD mpeg2 file and keep the quality as good as possible!

[liquid217]

yes i realize now that this message is in tmpgenc, but as i said before, you can convert it to straight uncompressed avi, then let tmpgenc encode it to mpg.

[dvdcrazy.net]

I'll try that as soon as TMPGEnc is free from work!
Thanx a million!

[Lextorite]

DVDcrazy...if EO Video is working for you also, why are you bothering with all the crap with tmpg ???

If you wanna convert it to svcd, just rip it to avi on EO Video and let CCE (A better m2v converter) do the rest.

[liquid217]

that is a matter of opinion 8)

[Scooter_NJ]

I never heard of EQ before..where do I find/get that?

[liquid217]

its EO Video, not EQ. it can be found at,
http://www.eo-video.com/

[Scooter_NJ]

Thanks Dude or dude-ette!