I have discovered how to rip Itunes Footage!

[guardiansoulblade]

I have indeed discovered how to rip iTunes digital video, as compressed and irritating as it is.

What you need:

1. iTunes
2. A screen capture program. You can find those free on the internet
3. A pair of speakers. This will not work without speakers that plug in to the computer! Hence, does not work on laptop!

How to Rip:
1. Buy whatever anime or show from the iTunes store. Download a screen capture program and make sure the speakers are connected to your computer. Make sure the screen capture program is set so it captures your entire screen. Just to be safe, turn off your screen saver. Start up the screen capture program. Open iTunes and play the video in full screen mode and turn up your speakers.

2. Make sure not to move the mouse or do anything else while recording from your screen! It will show up in your video if you do!

3. After the recording is finished. Go back to the screen capture program and save it. Open a video editing program and chop off the beginning ad end of the video, as it will show you opening and closing iTunes. Then resave the video.

Hope this helps people, drop me questions if you got them.

[JaddziaDax]

most screen capture programs record in a rather low frame rate... O.o
it would probably just be better to buy the DVDs and rip them than to try to capture that way.

[DeinReich]

Low framerate, low quality compression, meh, I'll stick with DVDs. Thanks anyway.

[ohmygodimonfire90]

There's an easier way to get rid of that pesky encryption.

1) download your episodes
2) open it using the vlc player
3) go to file, wizard, then select transcode/save to file
4) follow the steps in picking your container, video format, audio, etc.

And that's it. It works very well. I do it all the time. Hope this helps ^^

[guardiansoulblade]

I just tried to do that for a movie. I didn't work.

[Qyot27]

Requiem is really common knowledge by now, and far less complicated and error-prone than capturing is. If you don't know what I'm referring to, Google it. Screen capturing is not necessary at all, and the VLC method was never qualitatively shown to work in a reproducible fashion.

[Daniel_BMS]

Google Requiem? That doesn't bring anything useful up.

[SenTrix]

Low framerate, low quality compression, meh, I'll stick with DVDs. Thanks anyway.

[xexyzl]

Google Requiem? That doesn't bring anything useful up.

How long did you spend looking?

[Qyot27]

Of course, it does remain to be seen now how the recent DRM-free announcement will affect video purchases. Some sources say that it won't and videos will still have be a mixed bag, but other sources that I would expect to say something about it are oddly silent on the issue. I've not seen a definitive statement from Apple either way. If anyone does have a link to an Apple press release on the subject I'd appreciate it.