Is it impossible to encode licensed files?

[coopgang]

I have the license legally, but it's a WMV file and everytime I try to encode it in Super to a VOB, there's an error. The video codec string is a WMV3 and the audio codec is WMV 2

I've tried using both mencoder and ffmpeg, but I keep geeting an error. What should I do?

[jimmalenko]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/drm2wmv.zip
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=FairUse4WM
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=307310

[coopgang]

So is it impossible or not?

[mats.hogberg]

Unless you remove the DRM, it's impossible. Try fairuse4wm (jimmalenko's 2nd link).

/Mats

[guns1inger]

Did you look at the links posted above ? They give you the tools and knowledge to do what you want, if you invest a little time in reading them.

[coopgang]

Thanks for the info mats.

Gunslinger, all I was looking for was a little elaboration.

[lacywest]

A few years ago ... I used to have a membership to a website for downloading movies and everything was fine.

I let my membership run out because there was no point in keeping it because nothing was there I wanted. Months later I join up again and they now have movies using DRM ... well for as long as I was a member ... I could view them with WMP 10.

If I wanted to copy them ... I would set up my ATI AIW 7500 to output the video out. If you selected the right settings in ATI CCC ... as soon as you started playing the video the video would be the only thing being displayed and I had it connected to my DVD recorder using DVD-RAM ... what a pain in the butt ... doing all that.

I no longer do any of that crap ... I found a better solution ... PM me if you want to know.

[fatbloke88]

Hi
you could try this,i used it on an i tunes video i bought it says it does wmv

http://www.tunebite.com/en/tunebite/index.html?affiliate=95c5f1f46c3009e880dd8113e6ad6561

fatbloke88

[olyteddy]

I use my Hauppauge USB2 PVR by plugging the laptop S-vid and audio into it, and playing the vid full screen while recording it. Works for me.

[jman98]

Perhaps Jimmalenko's first link will work, but many on this forum seems to forget the following fact.
FairUse4WM works ONLY on Widows Media audio files. The original poster said he has a Windows Media VIDEO file. No one has yet cracked any version of WMV encoding.

[canadateck]

Works on Video Too.

[mats.hogberg]

FairUse4WM works ONLY on Widows Media audio files.

Wrong.

/Mats

[nopixies]

For years our company has created mov files to show presentations on. Recently the new IT guru bought into a sesrvice that only allows us to view these files as WMV. Which was fine -- we were using flip4mac and would download them. Well due to security concerns these are now being sent only as DRM wmv3.
We are a Mac Shop andwe can't see nor hear them and though I have been trolling google for a few weeks I have found nothing but bad news... With over 200 macs in play seems we have been cut off from the corporate DRM wmv3 files we need in order to operate. No one here has a PC and we are dumb as lead rocks when it comes to PC windows.
My questions are:
1) Is there a method of viewing these files on a mac using osx 10.4?
2) Is there anything I can try including junping through flaming hoops to convert these to something that we can view easily?

Thanks for your help.

[Ai Haibara]

nopixies, you might get a better response if you ask your questions in the Mac forum. I'm personally not sure anything on the Mac can handle WMV with DRM, but I could be wrong.

[Cornucopia]

I'd say try VPC emulation, but I don't know if it's been updated enough to support OSX10.4...

Hate to say it, but it sounds like a stupid move on the part of the IT guy (you should always check with your users and their needs...blah,blah,blah...).

Man, I hate DRM with a passion!

Scott