iTunes files to play on Fuze

Will Quicktime Pro export iTunes Video files (m4v) to an AVI so it can be played on the Fuze?

It may but I wouldnt hold my breath because of the DRM protection on most videos from itunes. You can try but it might not work.

As long as there is no DRM (i.e. it wasn’t something you purchased), Quicktime Pro can convert it to avi.

Thanks for the advice.  Another question:  Since most video files that are paid for and downloaded are protected, how can I convert those files to play on my Fuze?  I recently purchased a file from Amazon, it was a wmv file.  Sansa’s converter program could not convert it nor could a program I downloaded because it was protected.  I am at a loss at what type of files can be downloaded and converted to play on my fuze.  I am talking video files, not music files.  I think Sandisk has done a poor job at making it easy.  I can see why more people have iPods.  Please, any suggestions at “legally” purchasing video files that can be played on the Fuze??  The Fuze is a great music player for the price, but I am at a loss when it comes to video files.

Its not really Sansa’s fault. These videos aren’t being “protected” for you, they’re being protected from you (to keep you from playing it on any device you like). You’d have the same problem with this content on a Zune, or iRiver, or Sony…most anything. They should call it “restricted”, but that would be honest marketing.

Apple has the greatest incentive to make audio/video content very easy to buy, but impossible to play on anything but their hardware/software. People who innocently/naively buy their content are forced to either keep buying their hardware or give up on this content.

I’m sure if Sansa had their preference, everything would be in a format that is easily transferrable (or at least convertable).

I understand.  Any suggestions on a website where I can download movies/TV shows and play them on the Fuze?

I dont know what you are looking for spesifically but some TV channel websites have downloadable content including full episodes and webisodes of popular shows. Frostclick.com has torrent files of some classic films like The Night of the Living Dead.

what is frostclick it doesnt show any website called frostclick on my computer

Frostclick is a web site that uses The Creative Commons license to distribute music and movies for free and is completely legal.

Cuz iTunes movie has drm protection which prevent users playing these video files on other non-apple media players like Sansa Fuze directly, you may need remove m4v drm and convert it first, and here is a tutorial about how to convert m4v to aviand other video formats, that may be helpful:)

@taac1992 wrote:
I understand.  Any suggestions on a website where I can download movies/TV shows and play them on the Fuze?

http://www.archive.org/index.php has some older movies and tv shows that are in the public domain.  Some need to be converted first before using SMC to put them on your Fuze. 

As I know, iTunes music and video have DRM copyright protection, you can only play it on your computer or your iPod player. If you want to put them on other portable player such as PSP, SanDisk, Zune, MP3/MP4 player, etc. You have to remove the DRM protection at first. I found a media converter can do that, it’s easy to use and works pretty well for me, you may download it for a try.
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maccolar wrote:
As I know, iTunes music and video have DRM copyright protection, you can only play it on your computer or your iPod player. If you want to put them on other portable player such as PSP, SanDisk, Zune, MP3/MP4 player, etc. You have to remove the DRM protection at first. I found a media converter can do that, it’s easy to use and works pretty well for me, you may download it for a try.
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@maccolar wrote:
As I know, iTunes music and video have DRM copyright protection, you can only play it on your computer or your iPod player. If you want to put them on other portable player such as PSP, SanDisk, Zune, MP3/MP4 player, etc. You have to remove the DRM protection at first. I found a media converter can do that, it’s easy to use and works pretty well for me, you may download it for a try.
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Please, if you are going to share information about a product or service that may be of interest to people here, and especially if you include a link to said product or service, specify whether this is FREE, or costs money. If there is a free or trial version, but the full product costs (in this case 40 bucks), explain that too and if you know, what limitations the free/trial version has or what’s crippled in it.

 

By just doing what you did, and saying,

 

“I found a terrific product that works! Here’s where to get it!”

 

and not disclosing that it is a ‘pay-for-play’ product, your post is then reduced to just so much