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Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Authored by: jhonny on Apr 30, '05 04:21:22AM
The temporary video files are now stored under
~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/xx/xx/
But it seems that the file is not a QuickTime movie anymore (atleast after installing Tiger and QuickTime 7). Changing the shell script on the old AppleScript to:
lsof -wa -c iTunes +D ~/Library/ | grep -i qtch | head -1 | awk '{ print $9 }'
does copy the file correctly, but it is not playable in QuickTime.

So is there a some kind of DRM now on the music videos?

-j

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Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Authored by: LC on Apr 30, '05 12:28:46PM

I never had a problem getting the .mov files, under 10.3.x and QT 6.x. So yesterday I installed QT 7 (still under OS 10.3.9), and now instead of that .mov file I only have the cache files (which I found via lsof; once you know where the cache tree is, you can do a "find . -size +..." or a suitable "ls"). I'm hoping when I buy the QT7 Pro option, it may be possible to get the file exported to a .mov; Larry.



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Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Authored by: Stoopa on Apr 30, '05 02:33:21PM

I've gto QT Pro 7, and have no such luck. Gr.



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Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Authored by: JimMueller on May 02, '05 08:48:36PM

Grr indeed.

The full-screen trailer for the movie Serenity plays through the ITMS and the 40MB cache file (for me: 5fcd7f4c-23fb193b-65365a05-e5b593c3.qtch) is so far unplayable by anything I've tried.



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Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Authored by: genericuser on May 06, '05 12:20:34PM

I did a bit of digging and found out the cached "qtch" files only differ from thier "mov" files by 538 Bytes (Give or take a Byte). I am attempting to grep the files to see if there is a common block that is placed in the qtch files. It's long going, because the files are large.

I hope this may help others figure out the new qtch file format.

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