Re: New and Notable - Toei anime legal downloads - PreCure

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:29:46 -0400, The Wanderer
<inverseparadox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Galen wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:43:38 -0700 (PDT), Dave Watson
<dwbeingupfront@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 19, 10:20 am, Galen <ga...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PreCure episode 1 is 366 MB, wmv, english subtitled; it is
downloading at 250 KB/sec (on a 700 KB/sec connection).

A: *** DRM; my experience with getting some music that had that
garbage on it off a gift card has convinced me to never throw any
of my money at it.

Playing on a Dual-core, LCD monitor.
Media Player Classic won't attempt it.
Video size isn't given; looks like 512x384.
Windows Media Player has severe mouth teeth in the video;
they totally botched the deinterlacing, to the extent that
the video is worthless on this monitor.

Have you tried either MPlayer (mplayerhq.hu) or VLC? I wouldn't expect
the former, at least, to handle DRM cleanly, but I'd be interested to
know how they do react.

Mplayer:
"This file is encumbered with DRM and will not play."
"FATAL Error: MPlayer has crashed. This should not happen."
(MPlayer, btw, refused to open the file from network share;
I had to bring it to the desktop first.)

Totem Player:
"This file is encrypted and will not play."

VLC: Plays it, but the video is pure blocky chromatic hash.

Core Media Player (windows):
"Cannot render file; Unknown error."

WinDVD: fails, no message.

Windows Media Player (second machine, over network):
"Enter license code"
"This license has already been activated the maximum number of times."

Orignal file, after being moved from the desktop where
it was activated to a video directory, still plays.

Original file, moved to a different (WinXP) computer,
still plays from the original computer over network.

I changed the filename after activation (I added the
word "_TOEI_", and the file still plays.

-Galen
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