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How to convert protected BBC iPlayer TV shows movies to iTunes

Question:
"I am in UK, and I like watch TV shows and movies with BBC iPlayer. I am a teacher, I want to copy and burn some of the TV shows to a blank DVD disc so I can use it for my students for teaching. But when I copy the TV shows to my USB drive. A error message said that the BBC iPlayer video are DRM protected. What's this mean and what can I do? "

Remove DRM protection from BBC iPlayer TV shows and movies

Solution:
At present, the BBC iPlayer TV shows and movies only be available in UK. At the same time, The video from BBC iPlayer are based on Microsoft's Windows Media DRM, which led to concerns about copy and burn availability. With the added DRM protected, your download BBC iPlayer shows are limited to transform and copy.

  • BBC iPlayer TV shows and movies are DRM.
  • You are not able to copy or transfer BBC iPlayer downloaded mpeg4 video to iTunes directly.
  • BBC iPlayer video is based "Plays for Sure" DRM system.
  • You cannot burn BBC iPlayer downloaded movie to DVD disk for palyback on home DVD player because the DRM protection.
So, How to use the BBC iPlayer downloaded TV shows and movies without the troublesome restriction? Maybe, to re-record the DRM protected video by DRM removal Software DRMBuster is a smart choice. With DRMBuster, you can turn the downloads from BBC iPlayer Desktop into .mp4, .avi .wmv files (without time restrictions) and you can burn them to DVD or transfer the converted content to iTunes for using on iPod, iPad, iPhone or PADs.

DRMBuster is an ideal solution for you to Remove DRM protection from any protection movie, video and music files. This DRM removal software gives you a professionla conversion speed to convert any protected media files such as from BBC iPlayer, Amazon, iTunes and much more.

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Step 1: Download and install DRMBuster

BBC iPlayer programs are always under DRM protection. Within 7 or 30 days you have to finish watching the program. So, If you want to burn them to DVD. Your ERROR messages of burning DVDs is also caused from its DRM protection. In order to remove BBC iPlayer DRM protection from TV shows and move and to save its programs video files to computer hard disk or burn onto DVD, you need DRM removal software such as DRMBuster. it will help you firstly remove DRM protection of BBC iPlayer program, if you need, it will secondly convert your programs into other media file formats, then finally you can burned the converted media files onto DVDs without any error messages.


Convert protected BBC iPlayer TV shows and movie

Step 2: Input files and set the output video format

To input the what you want to convert from your local computer hard drive dolder. For you to enjoy the purchased BBC iPlayer movie files on iTunes for iPod, iPad, iPhone, you can set the MP4 files as the output files. If you set MP4 as output format, the DRMBuster will convert BBC iPlayer rented movies to MP4. So, this is the solution to solve this protected BBC iPlayer TV shows and movie to iTunes iPod conversion. you can convert WMV to MP4 by yourself fast and easily with DRMBuster!

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Step 3: Convert

After setting. the DRMbuster will automatically convert the BBC iPlayer TV shows and movie and video files to MP4 files for you. After conversion. you can transfer the converted BBC iPlaye movie to iPod, iPhone, iPad directly without iTunes.

Convert protected BBC iPlayer TV shows

Now you see this simple yet one-stop solution on how to remove copyright from BBC iPlayer movie and TV shows, which helps you play BBC iPlayer moviemovie videos on iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, Xbox, PSP, PS3, Blackberry, and Android smartphones etc at free.


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