DRM Upgrade

[Rick]

This evening I downloaded a TV program (576 MB) from the BBC iPlayer, the
program contains some kind of proprietary DRM, so can only apparently be
played back on Windows Media Player, which when I try informs me that the
DRM needs an automatic upgrade, it then goes through the motions with the
green bar a speeding to the very end, however when it gets there it displays
a message which says 'Windows Media Player encountered an error during
upgrade'.
I thought that this might be due to not using the IE browser, so I made it
my temporary default browser, but still had the same result, I then tried
playing it in Media Center which also told me that it needed an update,
again still with the same result at the end of it and annoyingly nothing
which tells me why, it simply refuses to complete the download, only
directing me to some kind of forum where I can find absolutely no mention of
this problem, so any help would therefore be gratefully received. TIA

 

[Char Jackson]

This evening I downloaded a TV program (576 MB) from the BBC iPlayer, the
program contains some kind of proprietary DRM, so can only apparently be
played back on Windows Media Player, which when I try informs me that the
DRM needs an automatic upgrade, it then goes through the motions with the
green bar a speeding to the very end, however when it gets there it displays
a message which says 'Windows Media Player encountered an error during
upgrade'.
I thought that this might be due to not using the IE browser, so I made it
my temporary default browser, but still had the same result, I then tried
playing it in Media Center which also told me that it needed an update,
again still with the same result at the end of it and annoyingly nothing
which tells me why, it simply refuses to complete the download, only
directing me to some kind of forum where I can find absolutely no mention of
this problem, so any help would therefore be gratefully received. TIA

I'm not sure how much help you'll get here for that problem. It's
obviously not a Windows 7 issue, but on top of that, you didn't
mention what you downloaded, exactly where you downloaded it from,
what the error messages were when you tried to update the player, nor
the forum that it directed you to in the end.

 

[Justin]

This evening I downloaded a TV program (576 MB) from the BBC iPlayer,
the program contains some kind of proprietary DRM, so can only
apparently be played back on Windows Media Player, which when I try
informs me that the DRM needs an automatic upgrade, it then goes through
the motions with the green bar a speeding to the very end, however when
it gets there it displays a message which says 'Windows Media Player
encountered an error during upgrade'.
I thought that this might be due to not using the IE browser, so I made
it my temporary default browser, but still had the same result, I then
tried playing it in Media Center which also told me that it needed an
update, again still with the same result at the end of it and annoyingly
nothing which tells me why, it simply refuses to complete the download,
only directing me to some kind of forum where I can find absolutely no
mention of this problem, so any help would therefore be gratefully
received. TIA

Isn't DRM a wonderful thing?
That's why I download everything without DRM...

 

[Rick]

Isn't DRM a wonderful thing?
That's why I download everything without DRM...

Agreed, at least I've now managed to download and install the desktop
iPlayer, but even that wouldn't originally download without disabling Chrome
and temporarily making Internet Explorer my default browser.

 

[Rick]

I'm not sure how much help you'll get here for that problem. It's
obviously not a Windows 7 issue, but on top of that, you didn't
mention what you downloaded, exactly where you downloaded it from,
what the error messages were when you tried to update the player, nor
the forum that it directed you to in the end.

"but on top of that, you didn't mention what you downloaded, exactly where
you downloaded it from"? 'This evening I downloaded a TV program (576 MB)
from the BBC iPlayer'.