Hello, I am trying to run Windows Media Player 11 on WINE and I cant. This is the only software that I need to be windows free since my university posts the lecture videos in WMP 11 DRM format and I cant view them if I dont have WMP11 installed. It asks for windows genuine verification. Anybody can help? I have wine 1.1.12. Thanks in advance.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM, iceblue25.1 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hello, > > I am trying to run Windows Media Player 11 on WINE and I cant. This is the only software that I need to be windows free since my university posts the lecture videos in WMP 11 DRM format and I cant view them if I dont have WMP11 installed. > > It asks for windows genuine verification. Anybody can help? I have wine 1.1.12. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > >http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10219 -- -Austin
iceblue25.1 wrote:> Hello, > > I am trying to run Windows Media Player 11 on WINE and I cant. This is the only software that I need to be windows free since my university posts the lecture videos in WMP 11 DRM format and I cant view them if I dont have WMP11 installed. > > It asks for windows genuine verification. Anybody can help? I have wine 1.1.12. > > Thanks in advance.Ouch. I feel for your predicament. I'm afraid I would resort to using WinXP (if you own a license) in a VM, in the same situation. Even if you find a workaround, promise me that you will at least write a letter to whomever's doing the lecture and the head of the CS department about the issues with DRM and vendor lock-in.
USC (http://www.usc.edu) offers distant education learning (http://den.usc.edu) for all of its engineering departments through live/offline video. I ll sent them an email, however, I dont believe they will change it.
What do you mean by " Shutdown your network..."? I have never tried Medibuntu. Anyone who has it installed can verify this?
? 2009-01-17?? 14:00 -0600?iceblue25.1???> What do you mean by " Shutdown your network..."? >disable your network before install wmp11.
I still cannot install it.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:46 PM, iceblue25.1 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hello, > > I am trying to run Windows Media Player 11 on WINE and I cant. This is the only software that I need to be windows free since my university posts the lecture videos in WMP 11 DRM format and I cant view them if I dont have WMP11 installed. >It seems that there is no format changes between WMP 10 and 11... You might want to give WMP 10 a try as well... You might have success cracking the WGA check (several search results contain intructions), but it is probably not legal and therefore not recommended. The codec package from Microsoft might enable an older WMP version to play the new files. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06fcaab7-dcc9-466b-b0c4-04db144bb601&DisplayLang=en Other versions: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/format/codecdownload.aspx> It asks for windows genuine verification. Anybody can help? I have wine 1.1.12. >If you actually own a Windows (which is probably a requirement to legally use WMP), you might want to try running it under Virtualbox... It is a slower, less elegant, more expensive solution, but it works for some things that Wine cannot do / do yet... (Still testing applications under Wine is still recommended though, since it shortcomings must be know before it can be fixed..) Gert
Thanks for your feedback. I managed to install WMP10 but I can't play WMP11 drm-protected files. The codecs that you have posted are for WMP9. Unfortunately, Medibuntu codecs do not work. Looks like there is no solution. Thanks