Hello there... I'm going to ask a crazy question. Does MC's Quicktime Engine playback still work right, and does it work with DRMed videos? If not, can it?
I don't have a bunch, since I don't buy audio or video with DRM on general principle, but I do have a handful of protected iTunes M4V files. For example, I have
the (free) Game of Thrones Season 1 extras, and a few other things they gave away for free here and there. They play correctly in Quicktime player on this machine, and it is all authorized and everything. With the M4V file type set to Automatic Playback Method on MC17, files with DRM (from the iTunes store) fail to play with a
Failed to connect video decoder to source error.
It is convenient that MC has separate settings for just M4V files (separate from MP4), since files named that way are likely to come from iTunes. In my case,
all of my files with the M4V extension are from iTunes. So, I went in there and changed M4V to the Quicktime Engine Playback Method. I'm pretty sure this used to work for iTunes protected stuff way, way back in the day, but I don't remember clearly because wine. In any case, it doesn't seem to work
now for my Game of Thrones extras.
Playback doesn't fail with an error with MC set to use the Quicktime Engine on those files, but the video window is gray and there is no audio. But the scrub bar seems to work and MC counts time as though it is playing, though, and it doesn't throw any errors. It would be cool if this could be fixed, obviously. Is fixing this possible using the Quicktime Engine?
And... Down the road, if so, should the M4V file-type do this by default?
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