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Windows Media Player encryption hacked again and a decoder is now offered. What are the chances we'll see it in VLC? I hope.
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
yeah, that'd be great. i've resisted downloading WMV thus far, but I keep running into more and more WMV9 videos that i can't play, so this would be much better than succumbing to microsoft software
From what I understand, all he did was write a program that converts the "encrycpted" commands for the WMV files into something that's easily understandable.
That way "normal" programs can parse the data and open the file.
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
Also note that the VC1 standard has been pre-released. Although Jon created some patches to let VLC work with the VC1 reference codec, this codec cannot be distributed by default, because the license under which it is released is not GPL compatible (GPL is the license under which VLC is released).
Derk-Jan Hartman, Student of the University Twente (NL), developer of VLC media player
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