funkahdafi;347293 Wrote: > And if you can (obviously Songbird can, so I don't see why SC could not) > decode the files using quicktime and at the same time get pass the DRM, > great. Why not do it? There is an additional part of SC playing Apple DRM files that Songbird doesn't have to deal with: network connected players.
Songbird gets QuickTime/iTunes (it doesn't really matter which does it?) to play the file. Great, it play it on the decoding PC directly and is not streamed or transmitted in any way to another device. For SC7 to play the same file using QuickTime/iTunes, it would need to get hold of the decoded stream and then send that to another device un-encripted. *This* is what will cause legal issues with Apple. I'm sure that it is possible for SC7 to do this. I'm also positive that if Logitec/SlimDevices were able to do it (both legally and technically) then they would have done this long ago. The same goes for every other vendor that produces network media players. You have to think, if it was as easy as you are proposing, why hasn't anyone else done it? (Sonos, Roku, etc.) -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
