WMV9 file with "Format Profile: CP"

[pooksahib]

Hi. I have a Western Digital "WDTV Live Hub" and in the list of playable file types is WMV9/VC-1. But some WMV9's don't play and I've established that they're the ones with Format Profile:CP (as disclosed by my PC player, KMPlayer). I thought about it and came up with Copyright Protected as a possible meaning of CP. However, on the computer under Properties/Details it says Content Protected: No.

Can anyone suggest why these WMV9's aren't playing on my WD device?

Many thanks.

[Baldrick]

Can you post the full details using MediaInfo(View->text) from the wmvs that don't work.

[pooksahib]

Hi Baldrick. Here's the info as requested:

General
Complete name : E:\Rougue WMV file.wmv
Format : Windows Media
File size : 45.8 MiB
Duration : 9mn 46s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 655 Kbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 658 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2006-07-06 21:52:41.374
Copyright : 2001
MediaFoundationVersion : 2.112

Video
ID : 2
Format : VC-1
Codec ID : WMV3
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Video 9
Codec ID/Hint : WMV3
Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 618 Kbps
Width : 400 pixels
Height : 300 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Variable
Nominal frame rate : 24.000 fps
Bit depth : 8 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : English (US)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : WMA
Format version : Version 2
Codec ID : 161
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Audio
Description of the codec : Windows Media Audio 9.1 - 32 kbps, 32 kHz, stereo (A/V) 1-pass CBR
Duration : 9mn 46s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 32.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 2.24 MiB (5%)
Language : English (US)

[jagabo]

Try Fairuse4wm?

[El Heggunte]

If the problematic WMVs are DRMed, Windows Media Player will
attempt to "download the license" or something before starting to play them.
Anyway, here is a thing that some codecs/players may have problems with:

Width : 400 pixels
Height : 300 pixels

because "300" is not divisible by 8 or 16

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EDIT:

I think "CP" stands for "Complex Profile",
and this is what the MultiMedia Wiki says about it:

When VC-1 data is encapsulated inside of an ASF file it will be accompanied with setup data attached as the extradata of a BITMAPINFOHEADER data structure. In VC-1 parlance, this data is called the sequence layer. The format of this data is as follows:

2 bits: profile (0 - simple, 1 - main, 2 - complex, 3 - advanced). Complex profile is not covered by VC-1 standard and may occur in old WMV3 files where it was called "advanced profile".

[jagabo]

I think "CP" stands for "Complex Profile",

Good find!

[pooksahib]

My thanks to you all. Reckon I'll stick with my current cure - any 'CP' WMV9's I find, I'll simply convert with xmediarecode.