Cracking the LG15 QT Movs

[curiousgeorge]

Revver encrypts the downloadable QT movs with DRM so that you can not, uhm, do things with them. The audio tracks have AAC encoding similar to iTunes music store songs.

But there is a tool to allow you to get access and edit this stuff as you see fit! (Simian howl of laughter...)

MAC ONLY


First get Dumpster from Apple:

ftp.apple.com/developer/Quicktime/Tools/Programmers_Tools/Dumpster.dmg

Then:

Open dumpster, then drag the mov. file into the open dumpster window and it will then open that file so you can edit it.

Slowly go though the file, line by line (clicking on each line as you go to open it), until you find "nsav" it will have a value after it like 00000001

Change this value to "0" and that should remove the protection.

It worked for me, I have sucked several vids into iMovie and Cleaner and all play correctly, with the sound intact!

Will look for a Win version when time allows. Have at it!

And no whining from the c's after all the bootleg material they used...

[Icaterus]

Wow interesting. I didn't even know revver put DRM on them.. Could you post a good way to get rid of it in windows please .

[trash180]

I'm going to look into dumpster.
I've been using VLC to strip off DRM and commercials. Use the streaming/exporting wizard to reformat as a mov. www.videolan.org/vlc/
mac and windows available, icaterus.

You don't really even have to transcode anything. Just drag to playlist, select streaming/export wizard, select your file, page past the transcode page and click mov...then finish. If you download a flv from youtube you may have to transcode.
Dumpster sounds easy though. Thanks CG!


After you can import into imovie or whatever.