Christian Pernegger Wrote: > > This cannot be done on the slimserver, even via a legal plugin, since > that would mean to send the data unencrypted to the sb, which MSFT > won't allow. It'd have to be a new native format.... > > How's the Roku do this? > The Roku uses the Windows Media Connect (WMC) feature of XP SP2 as its "server". No third party software is required. This is the same way the D-Link media player and other PlaysForSure network devices work. Because WMC is an MS application, it's fully integrated with DRM WMA content. Any DRM WMA authorized content in shared folders is automatically available to all devices connected to WMC. As far as I know, WMC manages all the DRM stuff on the PC so the device doesn't have to.
It's really very seamless with the Roku. When you first power up the Roku (even fresh out of the box) it finds your WMC PC and asks if you want to connect to it. You tell it to connect, and the protected (i.e. Yahoo) content is presented along with all your other MP3s, etc. From the Roku, you can't even tell it's DRM content. For the Squeezebox to support DRM WMA, it would probably have to support Windows Media Connect in addition to SlimServer. I realize that's not a trivial thing, but it hardly seems impossible either. I think both the Roku and the SB2 use similar Blackfin processors? The Roku manages to support several different servers, including WMC. -- AV_Guy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
