On Jun 5, 2012, at 16:49 , John Robinson wrote: > Out of town Bill, sorry I'm late. > > Under Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, etc. you could use QuickTime or some > program like SnapZPro to make a recording of something you wanted to keep for > your records.
I think you still can, unless it is something that has DRM hooked into it. > With LION the OS automatically renders the screen either blank or places a > checkerboard square pattern on your monitor. Nothing can be recorded and > this is all handled by Lion. According to the SnapZ guys they have no > control for it's scrambled before it gets to them to record. I just tried this with SnapzPro, both for a still shot and for a movie, and both were fine. I see from looking around on the web that the problem is with taking a screen capture of something which has DRM, like a DVD being played with the DVD player. There were some explicit instructions for using VLC to snag things off of DVDs here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3207660 The discussion is a bit aged, but it might still be relevant. > Maybe someone could write a program to change this but since it is written by > Apple and built into Lion it may be a challenge. > > I often record investing interviews and store them under the appropriate > title or person being interviewed. I don't intend to distribute, sell, or > whatever I only want it for my own personal use. I will keep one machine on > S. Leopard due to this and the Quicken issue. Hopefully one day both these > issues will be resolved. It'll have to start with DRM in general. Kinda bothers me when ads say something like 'Harry Potter and the Seven Dwarves---Own it today on DVD', because it really should be 'License it today on DVD'... Bill
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