Aceess highest quality iTunes video

[adrian2055]

I purchased a video through iTunes and when I checked the info on the video with mediainfo I can see that it has 2 video bitrates:





My issue is that when I used M4VGear to remove the drm it could only access that lowest quality video. Is there a way to access the higher quality video? I want to burn this to dvd so I need the highest quality video if possible.

[Baldrick]

Open the mp4/m4v with mkvtoolnix, remove one video track, save as a new mkv. Convert it.

And I hope you are ONLY ripping itunes that you have bought....not any rental.

edit: But the other video track details doesn't look ordinary video....

[adrian2055]

Yes It's a paid for download (Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances). $12.99 for it. It wasn't available to rent.

HmM...I hope it is. I will try the programs you suggested and see what happens.

[Vidd]

when I checked the info on the video with mediainfo I can see that it has 2 video bitrates:

The video only has one video stream. The second stream that you think is a higher bitrate video is only a still picture. Look at the frame rate and codec. It is a jpeg file, possibly album or cover art, or a still image that displays when the audio plays without video.

[hello_hello]

Also you're probably misinterpreting the bitrates. The video bitrate is being displayed in kb/s but the jpeg is being displayed in b/s, so the displayed video bitrate is much higher, although I'm not sure why a still image would display as having a bitrate. It's possibly something specific to the itunes format (mp4?) I don't understand.

[adrian2055]

You all were right. It was just a still image. Nothing watchable. I think I was just the way they encoded that particular video. Possibly something to do with copy protection. I've purchased several videos from iTunes and this is the only one like that. Oh Well. I got the protection removed so I'm ok. Thanks for clearing things up for me.