Silverlight is a platform for creating multi-media interactive areas,
primarily within a browser, much like Flash. So while someone could
write their own media player in Sliverlight (and there are several
canned ones out there) which could then play DRMed windows media,
Silverlight by itself does not provide general media playback. Nor does
Silverlight provide servies to decode stuff for QuickTime, VLC or the
like. Even if you created a DRM player page where you embedded a
Silverlight player where you could feed it an arbitrary streaming media
URL, AFAIK Silverlight has no accessibility hooks into voiceover so,
much like Flash, it would still be unusable. At least when I tried it
the Silverlight content wasn't even read by Voiceover and was just
skipped. I believe that Microsoft has written Silverlight to use their
own "UI Automation" accessibility API which of course does not exist on
the Mac.
CB
On 9/25/11 2:45 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
Hi, I have microsoft silverlight installed. Does this not allow for listening
to drm-protected material?
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 25, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Last I checked Microsoft had still not released the algorithms, source code or
compiled codecs for their proprietary DRM for any platform other than Windows.
Unless Microsoft changes this position there will be no way for any other
platform to decode their encryption, short of some hacker cracking it and
providing the tools for others to do the same.
CB
On 9/24/11 5:24 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
Hi all,
Subject says it all.
Can I use mac software to listen to netlibrary books encoded with drm in wma
format on the mac?
Thanks!
Ioana
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