wma help

[Robin Laing]

Guy Fraser wrote:
> 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.
> 

It is just the beginning.  TiVo users are starting to have problems as 
well.

I have posted many links to the following forum.

http://www.canadian-tv.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Offtopic&Number=195435&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1

I would second the mythTV suggestion.

planetCCRMA has rpms.
-- 
Robin Laing