Recording Media Center TV

[Bob I]

I am trying to copy tv shows that I have recorded using media center to dvd's. I begin the import fine. The file begins conversion. Then I get a message that I don't have permission to copy the file. This happened on every file I tried. Any suggestions.

[Bob I]

DRM is Digital Rights Management which, to make a long story short, prevents you from copying downloaded music, and in your case, tv shows.

 

OK - but what I don't understand is why I can capture it for my own use on media center (or record directly on a dvd) I shouldn't be allowed to store it on a DVD from media center for my own use? Any way to turn this off or get around it?

[gi7omy]

OK - but what I don't understand is why I can capture it for my own use on media center (or record directly on a dvd) I shouldn't be allowed to store it on a DVD from media center for my own use? Any way to turn this off or get around it?

 

Unfortunately not - intense lobbying by studio accountants made that illegal

 

To quote Charles Dickens: "The law is an &%$"

[Beerman]

OK - but what I don't understand is why I can capture it for my own use on media center (or record directly on a dvd) I shouldn't be allowed to store it on a DVD from media center for my own use? Any way to turn this off or get around it?

You see, Microsoft has to play nice with tv broadcasts so that it shows their on board with keeping downloaded music and movies from being copied on your computer. Certainly they have to show they will protect 'your' rights and you have to protect 'theirs'.

I feel your pain. I just got a DVD recorder/VCR combo. I can record any of my digital cable channels perfectly to vhs on the unit but not any tv shows (well, sometimes I can but just a few minutes). Tell me if that makes sense. Not all dvd recorders work this way but the LG does. So, if I want to record a tv show to dvd, I first have to record it to vhs then dub the vhs to dvd. Extremely stupid but in my case, I didn't get it to record tv.

It's this madness that makes people rationalize getting around the laws.

[ggrussell]

And I fear that it will only be worse with Vista. I wouldn't be surprised if Vista prevents you from ripping audio CDs or making copies of ANYTHING commerically pressed.

[Beerman]

And I fear that it will only be worse with Vista. I wouldn't be surprised if Vista prevents you from ripping audio CDs or making copies of ANYTHING commerically pressed.

I have only tried ripping a cd once in Vista using Media Player with no problems. I also had no trouble putting 2 songs I ripped on my Zen Micro photo player. So far, so good in that department.

However, I'm sure they'll be ways around all this too as time goes on.

[Beerman]

I am trying to copy tv shows that I have recorded using media center to dvd's. I begin the import fine. The file begins conversion. Then I get a message that I don't have permission to copy the file. This happened on every file I tried. Any suggestions.

I'm relatively new to Media Center and in my testing for MS in Vista, I have not been able to do anything with any recorded tv file other than view it on the computer I used to record it. So, it very well may be the copy protection scheme built in or the dreaded 'broadcast flags' we keep hearing about.

If you have another program to try it on and it works, then you know it's not MS.

[Bob I]

Must have something to do with your cable provider using broadcast flags. I record TV shows off DirecTV on my Media Center just fine and burn them to DVD RW for my sister to watch later.

 

Any chance you have done that Windows update about DRM for Windows Media Player? I always manually update my machine so I don't update everything. I've never installed IE7 either.

 

I probably have installed anything that comes through with windows update. Is there something that I can turn off? Never heard of DRM.

[grandpabruce]

I probably have installed anything that comes through with windows update. Is there something that I can turn off? Never heard of DRM.

 

DRM is Digital Rights Management which, to make a long story short, prevents you from copying downloaded music, and in your case, tv shows.

[Bob I]

I'm relatively new to Media Center and in my testing for MS in Vista, I have not been able to do anything with any recorded tv file other than view it on the computer I used to record it. So, it very well may be the copy protection scheme built in or the dreaded 'broadcast flags' we keep hearing about.

If you have another program to try it on and it works, then you know it's not MS.

 

One thing that I have been able to to is send it to the standalone dvd player and record it that way, but it's very slow and sort of defeats the purpose of using media center to record. Any other suggestion would be appreciated.

[ggrussell]

Must have something to do with your cable provider using broadcast flags. I record TV shows off DirecTV on my Media Center just fine and burn them to DVD RW for my sister to watch later.

 

Any chance you have done that Windows update about DRM for Windows Media Player? I always manually update my machine so I don't update everything. I've never installed IE7 either.