[MPlayer-users] license acquisition (hockey)

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Reshat Sabiq wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to watch
> 
> http://mfile.akamai.com/15080/live/reflector:40292.asx?bkup=40293
> from
> http://mediazone.com/channel/hockey/jsp/index.jsp
> and i have bought the rights for it. However, with windows i'm getting 
> prompted for username and passwd and then WMP acquires the license, 
> whereas with mplayer specifying -user and -passwd didn't seem to do the 
> same thing.
> 
> Any help is appreciated!

Sorry, this file is DRM-encumbered and you can't play it. MPlayer's
user and pass options are for websites/ftp servers that require a
password, not for DRM, which we won't support unless someone
reverse-engineers it for us.

Rich