Taking Screen Captures of iTunes Movies/TV?

[wasjoe]

I haven't seen an answer to this. In Windows, it's trivial to take screen captures of iTunes-downloaded movies/TV shows. On the Mac, I have yet to find a solution. Mac OS 10.7.5, iTunes 11.1.3, late 2006 Mac Pro.

Software already tried:
Mac Screen Capture
Quicktime 10.1
Snapz Pro X 2.5.2
GrabberRaster
iShowU 1.91.5
Quicktime 7
Screenium 2.1.8
VLC 2.1.2 (won't play the files at all)

All of the above except VLC produce grey checkerboard patterns, similar to a Mac OS screenshot attempt of a DVD.

Anyone know anything helpful? I'd appreciate any knowledge, at this point. Why would Apple enable screen captures on Windows and NOT for Mac??

Thanks for your time!

 

[Dave Braine]

Apple doesn't enable screen capture on Windows. Microsoft does. On Macs, it's a DRM issue.

 

[wasjoe]

Thanks for the reply. I do understand it's a DRM issue. But it is Apple's doing, because Apple's own downloads are allowed to behave differently on another OS than on their own. I guess that's what I find puzzling.

Also puzzling is that there doesn't appear to be a workaround, unlike almost every other DRM I can think of…?

 

[netslacker]

If you have an iPhone you can take a screen cap of a movie even if your streaming it from iCloud. It's not ideal but it does work.

 

[wasjoe]

Thanks netslacker, I didn't know that about the iPhone.

Incidentally, for anyone reading this thread in the future, Noteburner's m4v converter DID work in circumventing Apple's DRM, I successfully took a screenshot of a purchased iTunes TV episode using Noteburner's free trial version.

That is the only Mac solution I have found.