[MPlayer-users] Re: Problems showing Microsoft ASF file

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:25:56PM +0300, Kimmo Mustonen wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, compn wrote:
> 
> > C:\Documents and Settings\resu\Desktop>strings -n12 cart-longbeach-2004.asf
> > H6EFSfgrSECNWBzDeYRBJQ==
> > http://man.entriq.net/services/WMLicense?CrmId=gms&contentAccountId=gms&contentChannelId=Program
> >
> > this file is protected with DRM. mplayer has no DRM support.
> 
> Oh! :( Is there any way to "unprotect" it? Preferably allowing watching
> after that in Linux without need to reboot Windows or anything...?

Yes. Play it on windows with a video camera pointed at your monitor,
then record that with a tv capture card. Seriously. DON'T
make/purchase DRM'd files. These things wouldn't exist, and wouldn't
be a problem, if it weren't for people buying them or making them...

Rich