wma help

[Guy Fraser]

On Thu, 2005-06-10 at 17:16 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> > [rant]
> > Take a lesson from this and watch what you purchase.  DRM'd media is a
> > pain and it will get worse if people keep paying for it.
> > [/rant]
> 
> Just saw this:
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1952
> 
> even people that take the MSFT (advertising) shilling are starting to agree.
What does it stand for :

Don't
Remunerate
Monopolies

I wish...

I have yet to buy a single song or movie online, and have no intention
of doing so.

Along this topic line, did you know that when using Media Centre to
recored TV shows the program {usualy movies} can be copyright protected
to only be available to play for up to a specified amount of time.

I have been playing with it and recorded a movie {The Guardian} but
didn't get a chance to watch for a couple of days. When I finaly sat
down to watch it, I couldn't because the "Licence" had expired. I set it
up and recorded it again, this time I checked the info before watching
it, and it indicated that it would expire around midnight that day. I
started looking into this problem and discovered that the movie would
not even be able to be played on a mobile player or remote player, it
would only be able to be played on the device that recorded it.

I have looked at other PVR solutions including Myth, but I have digital
cable and the cable company disables the rs232 control so I can't change
channels. The only IR blaster I have been able to get locally is the one
that comes with the MSFT Media Centre Remote and their is nothing that 
seems to be able to use it without spending days setting up obscure
config files that are not documented well, except Media Centre.

I have found a good tool to convert all the unprotected content to
standard mpeg2 files. I was even able to figure out how to snag the
protected content and convert it to mpeg2, but it required using a
poorly documented tool and some sketchy tricks from a blog that I found
but I was successful. Oddly enough that was the only movie that I have
had the protection problem with.

Good luck to all, and keep up the good fight.