Hey guys,
I've been converting my old home videos into digital format for the past month or so, and Lion has presented a problem for me. Basically, my old home videos are DVDs, and applications like handbreak take way too long to convert, in my case, handbreak takes around twice realtime to convert. I knew there was a better way of doing this, so i decided to make screen recordings of my videos while they played in DVD player. Quicktime wouldn't let me record DVD player, as it replaced the video playing with a gray box. Since quicktime wasn't going to work, I downloaded a third party screen recording app. It was working well in snow leopard, but in lion, it appears as if apple has blocked third party screen recorders from recording the DVD player.
It seems like apple is putting these restrictions on to prevent copyrighted material from being digitized, but how does apple have any legal obligation to block screen recordings of the DVD player? It would be the fault of the user if they abused the screen recorder to record copyrighted material, apple would not be involved legally if a user were to digitize copyrighted material, so why does apple care? Users like me, who want to convert their own home movies are left in the dark with no way of getting their movies digitized. It seems like apple should be cracking down on applications like handbreak, that blatantly allow movies to be digitized, not third-party screen recorders, which have more purposes than just converting movies.
I'm sick of apple cracking down on things they have no part in, users should be able to do what they want, and deal with the consequences if they abuse a privilege. Apple seems to be treating their users like a bunch of babies recently, from blocking jailbreaks to using tamper-resistant screws in the iPhone and Macbooks. If you want to jailbreak, it's your device that you paid for, you should be able to do what you want with it. And same with the tamper-resistant screws, you paid for that device, all the parts are yours, apple shouldn't be able to tell you that you can't open up the device you own.
Sorry if you made yourself read that whole thing, I just had to get it off my chest.
-K
I've been converting my old home videos into digital format for the past month or so, and Lion has presented a problem for me. Basically, my old home videos are DVDs, and applications like handbreak take way too long to convert, in my case, handbreak takes around twice realtime to convert. I knew there was a better way of doing this, so i decided to make screen recordings of my videos while they played in DVD player. Quicktime wouldn't let me record DVD player, as it replaced the video playing with a gray box. Since quicktime wasn't going to work, I downloaded a third party screen recording app. It was working well in snow leopard, but in lion, it appears as if apple has blocked third party screen recorders from recording the DVD player.
It seems like apple is putting these restrictions on to prevent copyrighted material from being digitized, but how does apple have any legal obligation to block screen recordings of the DVD player? It would be the fault of the user if they abused the screen recorder to record copyrighted material, apple would not be involved legally if a user were to digitize copyrighted material, so why does apple care? Users like me, who want to convert their own home movies are left in the dark with no way of getting their movies digitized. It seems like apple should be cracking down on applications like handbreak, that blatantly allow movies to be digitized, not third-party screen recorders, which have more purposes than just converting movies.
I'm sick of apple cracking down on things they have no part in, users should be able to do what they want, and deal with the consequences if they abuse a privilege. Apple seems to be treating their users like a bunch of babies recently, from blocking jailbreaks to using tamper-resistant screws in the iPhone and Macbooks. If you want to jailbreak, it's your device that you paid for, you should be able to do what you want with it. And same with the tamper-resistant screws, you paid for that device, all the parts are yours, apple shouldn't be able to tell you that you can't open up the device you own.
Sorry if you made yourself read that whole thing, I just had to get it off my chest.
-K