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eagle62rg
09-02-2012, 10:50 AM
I just downloaded a movie from Amazon. It seems that Mezzmo will not play this format. It plays fine on my PC using Amazons UnBox player, however after pre-transcoding the file, it shows up on my Sony Blue Ray player as random color pixels. All other video files play normally.

Any thoughts?

Paul
09-03-2012, 10:49 AM
It could be DRM (digital rights management). Please post the FFmpeg information on one of the downloaded movies from Amazon. To do this, right-click on the video file in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmpeg Information'.

eagle62rg
11-28-2012, 09:45 AM
Paul, thanks for the quick response, and sorry for my slow reply. My server power supply went down, then I just got caught up in life.

Anyway, here is the FFmpeg info...

ffmpeg version N-40693-gc457a29 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 15 2012 12:57:14 with gcc 4.6.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/home/peter/ffmpeg/build/gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/peter/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/peter/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads
libavutil 51. 51.100 / 51. 51.100
libavcodec 54. 21.101 / 54. 21.101
libavformat 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 73.100 / 2. 73.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
Input #0, image2, from 'K:\Videos\Amazon Downloads\PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN AT WORLD'S END.jpg':
Duration: 00:00:00.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 112x150 [SAR 96:96 DAR 56:75], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 0, -99
---> Frame rate:
---> Aspect ratio:

Paul
11-28-2012, 09:57 AM
The FFmpeg information you have provided is for a JPG file (I guess the movie artwork). Can you post the FFmpeg information for the video file that you downloaded from Amazon? That's what we need to determine what may be going wrong.

eagle62rg
11-29-2012, 09:33 AM
Sorry about that...

ffmpeg version N-40693-gc457a29 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 15 2012 12:57:14 with gcc 4.6.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/home/peter/ffmpeg/build/gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/peter/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/peter/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads
libavutil 51. 51.100 / 51. 51.100
libavcodec 54. 21.101 / 54. 21.101
libavformat 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 73.100 / 2. 73.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
[asf @ 0035bec0] Ext DRM protected stream detected, decoding will likely fail!
[asf @ 0035bec0] DRM protected stream detected, decoding will likely fail!
[asf @ 0035bec0] Digital signature detected!
Input #0, asf, from 'K:\Videos\Amazon Downloads\PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN AT WORLD'S END.wmv':
Metadata:
encryption : ASF Extended Content Encryption
ASF_Protection_Type: DRM
ASF_Key_ID : bps2qiOCNE6wwF35P7nWOA==
ASF_License_URL : http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/licensing.html?CID=+1Brne/uPkW85RJraiffnQ==
WMFSDKVersion : 11.0.5721.5145
WMFSDKNeeded : 0.0.0.0000
VBR Peak : 600
IsVBR : 1
Buffer Average : 742
WM/ContentDistributor: Amazon.com
Amazon/ASIN : B005ZMV3KE
Amazon/Type : Content
Duration: 02:48:44.15, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2887 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: wmapro (b[1][0][0] / 0x0162), 48000 Hz, 5.1, flt, 384 kb/s
Stream #0:1: Video: vc1 (Advanced) (WVC1 / 0x31435657), yuv420p, 704x396, 2500 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 3, 3
---> Frame rate: 23.98
---> Aspect ratio: 16:9

Paul
11-29-2012, 10:19 AM
As we suspected, the FFmpeg information shows that Amazon has placed DRM into the video file and that means that Mezzmo (and ffmpeg.exe, which Mezzmo uses to transcode video and audio files) cannot decode or transcode these DRM-encrypted files. Since you are trying to stream this video to your Sony Blu-ray player, Mezzmo must transcode this WMV video file since Sony Blu-ray players cannot play WMV files natively. But, Mezzmo cannot transcode it due to the dreaded DRM. Sorry - there's nothing we can do about this. One option may be you can stream it to another DLNA device in your home (that supports WMV files). If you are unsure if your other devices are support WMV or not, then let us know the other devices you have and I can tell you.

eagle62rg
11-29-2012, 07:53 PM
Thanks Paul. As for Amazon, they just lost ALL of my movie business. Their loss.

I only tried one movie from them, so no need to try to work around with another player.

Thanks again...