Caroline, I'm not surprised the Beeb isn't making it easy to play downloaded files in other media players because, after all, the licence you're granted to play these does in the normal way of playing them expire in 28 days or something like that.
I wonder though if there is an extra DRM module or plug-in for Windows Media Player that would allow you to play these programs in WMP. The BBC itself might be prepared to answer this question. As an aside I'm rather surprised the Beeb hasn't closed the seeming loop hole where people are downloading radio programmes as that's not what is supposed to happen. there agreement with copyright holders is for 7 days streaming availability after a programme goes out. Still, a bit off the subject I know. Hope you get an answer to this Caroline and I see you've posted this issue on Access-UK so who knows, maybe an answer will yet surface there. Ray Caroline Ford wrote: Ray, Thank you for the advice. I have read the article but it doesn't seem to offer much help as to what the problem is. The files I am trying to play are downloaded programmes from the BBC iPlayer so they will have DRM protection. I have been able to stream a short sample of these programmes successfully just to make sure everything was working properly, and then proceeded to download the two versions on offer, one for portable players and one for Windows Media Player. Neither of these will play on my PC. I don't know whether there's something I need to do to allow Windows Media Player to play DRM files, but I have checked for updates and am already running version 11 with no updates on offer. I'm surprised the BBC have made it so fiendishly difficult to play these files. Perhaps they prefer people just to stream their programmes instead. Caroline. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
