Itunes videos to dvd

If I download a movie from the itunes store can I burn it to a dvd to play in a dvd player? If so how? Thanks

What are the options for playback? Is there anyway to place the content in a format that would be playable on my television?

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My daughter has filled up her laptop's hard drive. The big culprits are movies and TV shows purchased from iTunes. Is there a way that these files can be taken off her hard drive and archived to a DVD? She's not watching the files now and is OK if they come off her iPod, but doesn't want to erase something she paid for in case she might want them at some later date.
Is this possible? If so can someone point me to directions on how to archive these to DVD and how to restore to the hard drive at a later date?
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Hi L Powow- thanks for responding to my question. That's not quite what I had in mind. I don't want to back up the entire library, I only want to back up select iTunes video purchases for archival purposes.
I would like to remove the iTunes video purchases from the iTunes library on the computer's hard drive, because they take up too much space and they are not being currently used on the iPod.
I want to know how I can back-up only purchased videos to DVD, so that if I remove them from the library on the PC's hard drive and if, at a future date, there is a requirement to load the videos back onto to the iTunes library, I will be able to restore the videos from a DVD to the iTunes library on the PC hard drive.
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I purchased videos (or TV show episodes) from iTunes on my work computer (which is a PC), and burned the files to a DVD and when I tried to import them to my Powerbook at home, the videos were blank... they showed the correct time of the clip but it was a black screen.

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Is this possible? I bought two seasons of a show without enough memory on my PC, so I want to transfer one of the seasons to DVD-R until I get an external hardrive. Any help or other suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Did you purchase this from iTunes? If so, you can only burn the video to a disk for back up purposes. You can't burn it to one that can be read by a standard DVD player. If you have a 4 gig nano, you should be able to put the video on it. You may just have to move some other things off for a while.

Burning itunes videos to DVD

First off - new to mac, new to forum, primarily use itunes for music. Having said all of that...is it possible to download a video from itunes (or a TV show) and burn a DVD? I was looking into it and can't seem to find any info. Tried it w/itunes and can't get it to "Burn disc". Help is greatly appreciated.
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I'm assuming you want to burn a purchased video to a DVD disc that is watchable in your DVD player. The short answer to this question is, no, it cannot be done.
The DRM that protects the video files you buy from iTMS do not allow this type of burning. You can, however, burn the files to Data disc for backup.

Recording Itunes videos to DVD

My husband and I just downloaded a TV show from Itunes in the hopes of copying it to DVD for our use. However, the burn command on Itunes is grey when I want to do this.
How can we do this? Thanks for your support!

Not getting what I'm saying one bit...
Alright... scenario:
Home Based DVD Recorder: No control, pop it in, copy.
PC Based DVD Recorder: You have control over the lead in/lead out, data on the tracks, burn speed, etc.
Now, just because the Mac can READ those media types, doesn't mean it was burned correctly for it to read it. Now, also keep in mind, that it may not be the media, but the drive using it, some drives have a hard time reading certain CDs... like my DVD Recorder in my computer, it doesn't like normal CDs at all, won't install from them hardly, DVDs, run fine, perfect. It even burns CD-R, CD-RW, etc. And it READS the ones it burns, it doesn't read any other burn for some reason, some drives are just PICKY.

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I have downloaded over $50 worth of video film clips so I could make my own dvd. I assume that paying $3.69 for them entitles you to burn them to dvd as we do songs to cd @ $1.30/song. I have tried burning to a dvd with no luck. How do I do this?

Unfortunately that doesn't work. It's part of the deal between the iTMS and the right holders that prevents purchased videos from burning to DVD (except from burning to Data CD/DVD for backup).
The Music Store Terms of Service state (chapter 9):
"You shall be entitled to export, burn (if applicable) or copy Products solely for personal, noncommercial use. You shall not be entitled to burn Video Products."
I must admit, I hardly read those 'fine print' articles, but it's all written down.
Sorry for that.
M
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Burning videos to DVDs

Does anyone know what the playback quality of burning iTunes videos to dvds is like?
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Yeah. It’s zero quality because it is not possible.
You can save them as a data file but not as a video to view on a DVD player.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302758#13

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Does anyone know if you can burn your iTunes shows/videos to DVD?

You can burn the purchased videos and TV shows to a data DVD (change your settings in the Preferences->Advanced->Burning).
You can't burn them to a DVD to be played on a TV.
Hope that helps,
Sara.

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I'd like to play iTunes videos on my DVD player. I copied them on to a USB, then tried to play them on the DVD player. But they show up as "MPEG4" files and a red circle with a line through it appears. Guess that means it's a No Go. Any suggestions? Advice? Help? Thanks.

Well, I wondered...I tried playing the videos off the USB while it was plugged into my computer, and the video file in iTunes opened. Does that make sense to you? Yes, they do play on my iPod, but I hear you telling me I am NOT going to be able to play them on the DVD player. I also tried burning them onto a DVD disc, but that didn't work either.

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Jayhacker,
The iTunes videos are TV quality, not DVD quality. They will look great, although small, on your computer screen, and would look like broadcast TV played from a video iPod to TV, but they just don't have the bit-rate that a DVD would provide.
Still, I have never been disappointed with the quality on my computer, and I might even say that I prefer viewing shows on it to watching them on TV. Of course, catching a show on TV is free
Anything that you purchase from the iTunes Music Store is protected. This means that you can't transcode them, even using Quicktime Pro. You can drag them out of iTunes to a blank DVD to make copies for backup purposes, but you can't convert them to MPEG-2 (the DVD standard). In other words, burning a video DVD is out.
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i want to burn some of the videos i bought on itunes to a dvd.. how do i do that?

Hi Deborah,
There should be information in iTunes Help on burning DVDs.
Go to Preferences>Advanced>Burning to see your options.
You will have to burn the DVD as a Data DVD.
You cannot burn videos to DVD and play them in a commercial video player if you bought them from iTMS, this is against the DRM.
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I just got a brand new dell studio last week; i installed itunes 9 with the 64bit and for the first few days it worked just fine and now I will be watching a movie on itunes and my computer will freeze and go black, requiring me to do a manual shut down because i can no longer move my cursor or click anything. I've heard other problems with windows 7 and itunes. When i insert a regular DVD into windows media it works just fine. So far my computer only freezes with my itunes videos but who knows next week it could be my music too!
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I had the same issue for windows 7. Right click on the iTunes setup file and run as administrator, it works.

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Is there a best way to burn itunes videos to a dvd? Will the dvd work? Thanks.

Neither. The owners of the content have required that Apple not make videos burnable. Whether this will change at some point in the future, no one here knows or can say.

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