Re: Google Launches Pay-Per-View Web Video

Message: 12

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:38:17 -0600

From: Milton Aupperle <email@hidden>

If the movie is DRM protected, it does  not matter what your using to

view WiMP on the Mac. MicroSoft does not support it's WiMP DRM

verification on the Mac and

In fact, it does support version 1 DRM licences, but not subsequent versions (which therefore still makes it a dud !)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/faq.aspx?section=TOPISSUES&question=TOPISSUES3#1_3

Here are the steps listed in the msdn library for enabling DRM support on the media server to handle Mac WMP :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/techart/winmediadrm/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/wmrm7macreconfig.asp?frame=true

Thanks - for the link and I had looked at this in the past, but tat the time I was interested in WiMP 8 support.

In general license providers need not use licences later than version 1, but they mostly do. So in fact, "licence providers don't support DRM content for the Mac, because the client is crippeled" is what you meant to say ;-)

Yep. Even Microsoft's 8.0 or 9.0 Player doesn't support DRM on the Mac.  All the video providers I've seen require WiMP 8 or 9,  the media be verified with an internect connection using a user Id and password. The WiMP player or plugin on a Mac reports you don't have the correct digital rights to view the video, whereas the rest don't display video at all.