Has anyone figured out how to play a .wmv file in Intrepid KDE 4.2

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 06:26:12 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 18:35 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 17:05, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > > Thus the DRM loving guys will quickly learn that it is not financially
> > > worthwhile for them to use DRM.
> >
> > Most of the new released films are .wmv with DRM.  They do not include the
> > DRM language.  So when you download, you only find out when the movie does
> > not play.  It causes a lot of download time.  I can't really complain too
> > much, without the normal capability, I would not be able to view as freely
> > as I do. I am grateful for that.
> >
> > Steven
> 
> Hi Steven.
> 
> DRM was being used a while back by some audio cd producers. I believe that 
> Sony was one of them. You could play these audio cd's on a standalone 
> cdplayer, but not on your computer, because of the DRM stuff that was on the 
> audio cd.

What about libdvdcss2 for encrypted DVDs? I dunno if that will help or
not. Ric

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