[Q] WMV Movie Support?

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I did a "digital download" of a DVD to my PC, and then copied the .wmv file over to the /Android/data folder. The tablet recognizes the file (when I pull up the videos screen), but when I try and play, I get a "Media Error: Sorry, cannot play this video" message.

I'm brand new to the Tablet, so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what...

Thanks in advance!
Brian

Most digital downloads from DVDs are DRM proteced. These can only be played on "official" Microsoft codecs, usually found on Windows XP, Vista, Seven, and OSX. You're pobbly out of luck.

Originally Posted by o9guy

Most digital downloads from DVDs are DRM proteced. These can only be played on "official" Microsoft codecs, usually found on Windows XP, Vista, Seven, and OSX. You're pobbly out of luck.

Hmmm.... We've downloaded similar movies to the Ipod Touch... clearly not a windows product.

Quite unfortunate if "digital downloads" cannot be played on the tablet.

I won't say they all have DRM but many do. Googling "drm wmv" should give you some ideas as to how to deteremine if this is the case.

Thanks so much for your help!
Brian

WMV File

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I had a WMV video that would not play on my Windows 7 PC with Windows Media Player.

It would play using DIV-X and some other movie players. I happen to have Camtasia Studio and I opened the file in Camtasia and created a new WMV file (took about two hours to complete). Much to my surprise the New WMV file created with Camtasia would now run fine on the New Windows 7 machine with Windows Media Player.

Just for fun, I copied the new WMV file over to the G Tablet and it played fine.

My guess is this is hit or miss depending on how the original file was created (I think this file was created with an old version of Window's Movie Maker in around 2007). Something else that is strange to me is the old movie format would play on Windows Vista but not on Windows 7.

Additional on the OP's question. You can check for DRM protection by clicking on the file properties in Windows explorer. There's a "protected content" statement, in one of the tabs. For WMA/WMV files, it should be able to tell you if it's protected or not.

If you had gotten it from Amazon, or from a DVD digital download, it is most likely infected with DRM.

Download rockplayer. Works for my phone. Should work for tablet as well

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I tried rock player but told me could not use hardware playback. When i tried software decoding I got large pixelated video not distinguishable. Please advise.

Sounds like DRM to me. I haven't used a WMV on my tab yet but I assume it will with RockPlayer.