Amazon Unbox Video Downloads (1 Viewer)

[resolian]

I have many videos i've bought on Amazon Unbox, and while it will let me play the videos in Windows Media Player, MediaPortal doesn't allow me to play it.

Is it because they're protected? How would I get around that? Is there anything specific I can do to get these videos (or any protected videos i purchase; other wmv or even mp4 from itunes) to play in MP?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hi resolian

Re drm'ed material, unfortunately there is no way MP can play these files, because Windows will not let it happen.
As for removing drm from your files, it is possible, but the information to do so, is not available from here.

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* Sat-Hacking: SoftCAM, Card-Emulation, Card-Sharing, MDAPI etc.
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* DRM removal

Regards

 

[resolian]

Fully understandable, I wasn't suggesting removing the drm rather was wondering if there was a workaround in mp to play the files, appologies if it sounded otherwise.

Thanks for the quick response,
Resol

 

[campnic]

I use Windows Media Player as an external player for my amazon files, gets around the problem, unfortunately you won't be able to play any other content native in MP.

 

[resolian]

I found a thread where someone had made a plugin that launched PowerDVD (or some other program) when you wanted to play an HD DVD or a Blue Ray Disk.

I'm still trying to get it to work correctly, which is hard when windows suddenly decides it doesn't like the letters 'h','p' and 'b' (for some reason my desktop stopped recognizing several letters, not my keyboard, but windows-i can't even use the on screen keyboard), but do you think there would be a way to get a plugin to do the same thing for drm'd content?

is there a way for MP to detect whether it's DRM'd content? And if there is do you think there's a way for it to detect what kind? (wmv, windows media, mp4, itunes, etc.). It seems if you can you'd be able to launch the correct program to play it, and after it's done, like in the other plugin i found, use the back button to go back to mp.

 

[campnic]

I borrowed a script from someone else on the forum:

Set oArgs = WScript.Arguments
sFilePath = oArgs(0)
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

If InStr(1, sFilePath, ".M4V", 1) > 0 Then
iRC = oShell.Run("""" & sFilePath & """")
iRC = oShell.AppActivate("QuickTimePlayerMain")
WScript.Sleep 5000
oShell.SendKeys "^f"
Else
iRC = oShell.Run("""" & sFilePath & """")
End If

Wscript.Quit iRC

Put this text in a file called videoplayer.vbs then have media portal use the "external player" videoplayer.vbs

This will launch all videos in whatever windows has assigned as their default player. (Quicktime, Window Media, etc.) Works well for me.

As for using the remote to get back into MP you are up to your own solution for that, I use a program called HIP to assign buttons to close the app, which will take me back to MP.