Windows media workaround

I would like to know if there's a workaround for DRM issues with windows media player? I get an error every time it try to play a media stream. The school i go to uses wmv files to stream content.
Assistance really appreciated.

Poor School : windows DRM is absolutely fraught with problems - and major security issues.
Can you be more specific about what media you are playing & how, with what, on what, etc pls ?
What happens on a Windows Box, do you require a Net Connection etc...
Because otherwise, I'm afraid the school has committed to a (notorious) Non-Standard media format which is a very poor choice indeed. [What foolish person made that decision?]

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Jerky playback in Source Monitor (vs. Windows Media Player) ...

I am a new user of CS5.5. I've read the FAQ and other posts and understand that my machine is underpowered.
That said, why do my HD clips play smoothly with Windows Media Player or Quicktime, but play jerky in the PP Source Monitor? What is it about PP's source monitor player that causes clips to choke when they can play back smoothly on the same computer using other software? Are there any other workarounds other than a faster machine I can do in the meantime until I upgrade my hardware?
For example, I see the "render entire work area" option under the Sequence menu as noted above - is there any way to do something similar to get PP to (pre) render the clips in the Project Panel for follow up editing in the Source Monitor window?
What about batch encoding to an uncompressed format and then editing the resultant clips? I would be concerned about loss of quality here though. Being new to PP, not even sure this question makes any sense in the first place.
Thanks!
Jon

shooternz wrote:
I think that you are relating your own playback experience and one that may not be particular to all users or fair as a general statement about PPRO
Good news for you...its not designed that way and a great playback experience is possible.
Bad news is...you have to work out why you are not getting it!
(It has nothing to do with Quadro Cards because plenty of users with other cards have no issue either.)
Well, I'm just going by what I've seen in the past few years. When Premiere CS4 came out I had an Intel Quad Core 2.66 Ghz, 8 GB of RAM, Intel motherboard and an Nvidia 7950GT card. Playback was fine in Vegas, skipped frames in Premiere. Then on my current machine, an AMD 1090T 6 cores @3.2 Ghz, G.Skill 16 GB of RAM, a top of the line Gigabyte motherboard, and at first an ATI Radeon 4850HD, same thing, Vegas played fine, Edius much better (but nothing beats Edius in speed), and Premiere CS5 stuttered like crazy. Now, same machine but with an eVGA GTX570 instead of the ATI, Windows 7 x64, fresh install just one day old. Premiere CS6 does the same thing. If it's my machine, I have no idea what could it be, but the fact that it did the same on two different cards on this machine, and that Premiere CS4 used to do the same in a totally different machine, plus the fact that two other NLEs didn't have that issue, tells me Premiere has a problem at displaying video inside the GUI.
Maybe it could be that most people don't see stutter because they leave the playback quality in automatic? I'm sure I don't have any stutter if I do that, but it looks terrible. Some frames look fine, others look like the pixels got drunk and had a night out with crack whores Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but you get the point.
If anyone has a suggestion I'd be happy to try it. It's not a terrible issue for me, I always edit with the TV set on and that is fed by the Matrox MXO2 Mini with perfect quality.

EXPORT LONG FILES IN 1080p for Windows Media Player

Hello, need some help in exporting and encoding some large files from Premiere CS6.
We have 4 Sequences, each totalling 45minutes in length and in 1080p (ProRes422).
We need to export and encode for Windows Media Player as quickly as possible.
Looks like each export is going to take over an hour from Premiere as "Match Sequence Settings"
-keep in mind there is NO AUDIO.
Once it's out of Premiere as an MPEG, I can transcode to any format. Ultimately WMV would be optimal,
but we need to transcode the MPEG into a MOV file before 'Episode' will accept it, just to make the WMV files.
Target files: (4) 1080p Windows Media Player compatible files
Does anyone have a better workflow workaround? Midnight hour and need help!
Thanks in advance,
Dan

Thanks Jim, I can't export to WMV out of Premiere or Media Encoder. I use Episode to make my WMV files, and since Episode doesn't take MPEG in from Premiere (sigh)
I have to first make them in Quicktimes..
But yes! Anything Windows Media Player can handle... should I just go with the 5GB MPG files? No way for me to test, I'm on a Mac and these are playing on a PC
thanks for your help

How to prevent Windows Media Player plug-in from overriding sizing in html embed code?

My html code for embedding Windows Media Player into a frame recently developed problems in Firefox but not IE 8. The player displays properly at first, but then repositions and resizes. It seems my width setting is honored, but not my height setting. Also, autoplay="false' (or "0") additionally is not honored- the video starts playing after the repositioning and resizing. I have tried different embed code with the same result. I have the correct Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in and it is up to date. I tried updating to Firefox version 9.0.1, but the problem persists. I've come across web postings positing the plug-in settings are overriding embed code. Any workarounds appreciated. Thank you.

A good place to ask advice about web development is at the MozillaZine "Web Development/Standards Evangelism" forum.
*http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25
The helpers at that forum are more knowledgeable about web development issues. 
You need to register at the MozillaZine forum site in order to post at that forum.

Window Media Player for Mac

Earlier (in the year) I asked why I could not play Windows Media Files on my MacBook. The answer I got was not satisfying and I feel I have not resolution to the problem.
Someone suggested Flip4 or something and it did not work at the time.
Also, I tried downloading Windows Media for Macs and that would not open on my Mac.
Is there something I'm missing?
Is it a lost cause?
I get .WMA or whatever files (home made movies from friends) who have PCs and I cannot watch them. I would like to be able to watch them.

I've used Flip4Mac pretty successfully. (It doesn't always work--I suspect there's .WMV files, and then there's .WMV files. They're mostly the same, but may have been made with differing codecs, and thus, flip might not be able to open that particular codec file.
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Doc

Windows 7 Enterprise N SP1 64bit - inability to install Windows Media Player

Hello,
For last two days I am strugling to install WMP on to W7 ENT SP1 N 64bit.
This is now driving me crazy - thats what I have done till now :
I have two machines installed with Win 7 Ent N SP1 64 bit.
On both there is no possibility to install Media Feature Pack (Windows6.1-KB968211-x64-RefreshPkg)
Installer stops on windows (installing update 1 from 1.......) and CBS.log is growing very fast during the "installation".
I have left PC for at least 10 hours but nothing happens (and CBS.log grew till 154 GB!!!!).
The other computer acts the same.
What I have tried till now :
-sfc scan
-chkdsk scan
-renaming SoftwareDistribution folder
-disabling antivirus
Finally I have performed "Windows Upgrade Repair" which allowed me to install the update manually on administrator account.
Unfortunatelly after restart - there was some info about reverting failed update ??? and "Media features" and Media Pack was gone. Tried again and the same thing happened. At the third time the installation stuck on "Installing update screen"
and CBS.log started to grow again,
All automatic updates can be installed without any issues.
I cannot understand why you makes all thing so complicated - turning simple installation files into updates which does not work.
Please assist,
Best Regards
Greg

Hi,
I was looking for all possible solution I could find before :
- Clean boot - no effect
- Manual installation - the only way I know to install this patch - still failed
- System Update Readiness Tool - detected no issues
- sfc scan - no issues
- fsutil resource setautoreset true
C:\ - no effect
- System Upgrade - no effect
- all antivirus and firewall disabled - anyway I am trying to install this at offline patch
- patch downloaded with different browsers
I will be appriciated for help. Is there any way to register all librarires related to WMP 12 manually ?
Many Thanks
Greg
I have come up with "workaround" - my issue was related to inability to run GTA V without proper WMP installation,
I have managed to copy some libraries from Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit /system32 folder and register them in my system. I have also copied Windows Media Player folder to my Program Files (x86).
Here is a list of dll's I have registered :
mf.dll
mfplat.dll
mfreadwrite.dll
WMASF.DLL
wmcodecdspps.dll
WMNetMgr.dll
wmp.dll
wmpcm.dll
WmpDui.dll
wmpdxm.dll
wmpeffects.dll
WMPEncEn.dll
WMPhoto.dll
wmploc.DLL
wmpmde.dll
wmpps.dll
wmpshell.dll
wmpsrcwp.dll
wmsgapi.dll
WMSPDMOD.DLL
WMSPDMOE.DLL
WMVCORE.DLL
WMVDECOD.DLL
wmvdspa.dll
WMVENCOD.DLL
WMVSDECD.DLL
WMVSENCD.DLL
WMVXENCD.DLL
I know it was a long shot but it works :) Now GTA V is running :)
To bulk register these dll's i have used a following code saves as a *.cmd file (all you need to do is to drag&drop libraries onto this file)
@echo off
echo registering files....
:check
if not test%1==test goto run
goto end
:run
echo registering: %1 .....
regsvr32 "%1" /s
shift
goto check
:end
pause
exit
That is it,
Hopefully someone will not be forced to sit 40 hours and think what to do when Medai feature pack cannot be installed.
Still it would not be easier to get normal WMP installer ? Instead of that I had to struglle with one update which god knows why cannot be installed.
P.S.
It will not allow to run Windows Media Player !!!! It will just allow to play GTA V which needs some WMP libraries to run.
Best Regards
Greg

Windows Media Player Bug - Sort Of

To make a long story short, I could not figure out why my external hard drives were thrashing each time I played a video file from one on my external drives. This would last about five or six minutes each time I played a new file. As my computer is setup
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Currently, we may still use the workaround to disable sync settings.
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Windows Media Player not selecting custom audio renderer filter on Windows 7 (works with graphedit)

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Filter works fine with graphedit and media player classic, I am able to receive audio data. But when I try to play file using Windows Media Player, filter gets callback in completeconnect followed by breakconnect and then its discarded.
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Implement IReferenceClock interface, still fails with WMP
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But it seems unresolved.
Please help, am stuck on this issue for 3 days without any luck. Any clues on this is appreciated.
Thank you.
-- Shobhit

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Most of QuerryInterface calls received in NonDelegatingQuerryInterface callback inside filter are same as that for greaphedit.
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Can no longer play windows media files

I recently upgraded to version 10.6.8 of Mac OS X and I can no longer play embedded Windows Media files using Flip4Mac (version 2.3.8.1) on Safari or FireFox. Any suggestions on a workaround?

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Will Cisco TAC assist in an issue that may or may not be application related?
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I fixed it:
CSCsd82714 Bug: RTSP fails with Windows media player
Symptom:
RTSP stream setup is failing with "inspect rtsp" enabled for clients to a
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Client on the outside is connecting to a server behind the PIX. The server
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static (DMZ,outside) 172.16.1.1 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255
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access-group outside_access_i in interface outside
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WPD: 740.544 003 0 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ENTERING: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControlWPD: 740.544 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl: IoControlCode: '0x32504D57'WPD: 740.544 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ERROR: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, HandleIoControl failed : hr = 0x80070032, 'The request is not supported. 'WPD: 740.544 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ERROR: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, Completing WDF request with status -07374823WPD: 740.544 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ERROR: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, WdfRequestComplete failed: c000000WPD: 740.544 003 0 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] EXITING: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControlWPD: 5688.336 0843 0 2 [wpdsp.dll] ERROR: IoControlHelper, WdfDeviceIoControl failed, hr = 0xd000000WPD: 5688.336 0843 0 [wpdsp.dll] EXITING: IoControlHelperpCtx = 009AFF0, opcode = 32504d57, inputBuffer = 0344E458, bytesToWrite = 4, outputBuffer = 0349540, bytesToRead = 4, bytesRead = 0344E460WPD: 5688.336 0843 0 [wpdsp.dll] ERROR: CWPDDevice:eviceIoControl, DeviceIoControl failedWPD: 5688.336 0843 0 0 [wpdsp.dll] EXITING: CWPDDevice:eviceIoControlopcode = 32504d57, lpInBuffer = 0344E458, nInBufferSize = 4, lpOutBuffer = 0349540, pnOutBufferSize = 0344E460WPD: 5688.336 0843 0 0 [wpdsp.dll] ENTERING: CWPDDevice:eviceIoControlopcode = 32504d57, lpInBuffer = 0344E458, nInBufferSize = 4, lpOutBuffer = 0349540, pnOutBufferSize = 0344E460WPD: 5688.336 0843 0 [wpdsp.dll] ENTERING: IoControlHelperpCtx = 009AFF0, opcode = 32504d57, inputBuffer = 0344E458, bytesToWrite = 4, outputBuffer = 0349540, bytesToRead = 4, bytesRead = 0344E460WPD: 740.424 003 0 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ENTERING: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControlWPD: 740.424 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl: IoControlCode: '0x32504D57'WPD: 740.424 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ERROR: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, HandleIoControl failed : hr = 0x80070032, 'The request is not supported. 'WPD: 740.424 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ERROR: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, Completing WDF request with status -07374823WPD: 740.424 003 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] ERROR: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControl, WdfRequestComplete failed: c000000WPD: 740.424 003 0 0 [WpdMtpDr.dll] EXITING: Wdf_EvtIoDeviceControlWPD: 5688.336 0843 0 2 [wpdsp.dll] ERROR: IoControlHelper, WdfDeviceIoControl failed, hr = 0xd000000WPD: 5688.336 0843 0 [wpdsp.dll] EXITING: IoControlHelperpCtx = 009AFF0, opcode = 32504d57, inputBuffer = 0344E458, bytesToWrite = 4, outputBuffer = 0349540, bytesToRead = 4, bytesRead = 0344E460WPD: 5688.336 0843 0 [wpdsp.dll] ERROR: CWPDDevice:eviceIoControl, DeviceIoControl failed
Message Edited by winterminute on 02-08-2006 07:25 AM

IPOD not recognized by Windows Media Player

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You say computer doesn't recognize that iPod is attached then that iTunes works with iPod. ????
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