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Playing DRM WMV on a mac?

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TheMacPotato

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Mar 3, 2006
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is there any way of playing a DRM WMV file on a mac? I have Flip4Mac installed so can play WMV through QuickTime player. I also have virtual PC, which i can play the DRM WMV file with, but it plays really slowly in that and is virtually unwatchable.

any ideas anyone?
 
You cannot play a windows DRM file on a mac. Only options you have is to

  • make on a PC an analog copy of it and watch that.
  • or see if there is some sort of hack that can strip the DRM. (if it can be done at all you will probably need a windows computer. Also any method for stripping the DRM is probably already made impossible by microsoft, so don't count on finding such a solution).
 
isgoed said:
You cannot play a windows DRM file on a mac. Only options you have is to

  • make on a PC an analog copy of it and watch that.
  • or see if there is some sort of hack that can strip the DRM. (if it can be done at all you will probably need a windows computer. Also any method for stripping the DRM is probably already made impossible by microsoft, so don't count on finding such a solution).
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Or, if you're feeling really nerdy, reproduce the DRM found in Windows Media Player, patch Flip4Mac with it, and off you go :) Of course, you'll need to have a PC, a good understanding of modern cryptography, an excellent understanding of reverse engineering in Windows, and a whole lot of time. Actually, it sounds like fun. I may have to have a crack at it when I'm on holidays...
 
Drm Stripper? Tunebite

demallien said:
Or, if you're feeling really nerdy, reproduce the DRM found in Windows Media Player, patch Flip4Mac with it, and off you go :) Of course, you'll need to have a PC, a good understanding of modern cryptography, an excellent understanding of reverse engineering in Windows, and a whole lot of time. Actually, it sounds like fun. I may have to have a crack at it when I'm on holidays...
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YOU NEED TO GET A WIDOZE BOX, YUK!
What's that all that about!
Hey! next time you see Bill Gates, kick him in the nuts for me will Ya?.
 
isgoed said:
You cannot play a windows DRM file on a mac. Only options you have is to

  • make on a PC an analog copy of it and watch that.
  • or see if there is some sort of hack that can strip the DRM. (if it can be done at all you will probably need a windows computer. Also any method for stripping the DRM is probably already made impossible by microsoft, so don't count on finding such a solution).
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Maybe you can rip the DRM on Windows. That's what I do with all those free WMAs from Ruckus.
 
MacJobbe said:
I got 4 things to say:

  1. Bootcamp
  2. Windows XP (YES XP! NOT VISTA OR SEVEN - WORKS BEST ON XP!)
  3. Protected Music Converter! - quite affordable if you like me got free music download ;)

I think you can figure the rest ..
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Why would you pay for software you can get for free? I don't mean you should pirate it; I mean you should get the free software upon which this is probably based (i.e. these people are probably using someone else's code to make money).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_DRM#Removal
 
MacJobbe said:
Hmm.. because I got this piece of software from my physics teacher :p
Why bother using anything else then? :p
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Where did you find a physics teacher who uses windows? At the very least if the school won't spring for a Mac, they could use Scientific Linux.
;)
 
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