Can't play region restricted WMV

[yanon]

Is there anyway to bypass that restriction? I am thinking that changing my computer's regional setting to the appropriate region would do the trick but this (changing the region setting back and forth) would be a pain in the butt. Better yet, I am looking for a tool to strip that restriction.

[gd_nimrod]

Did you try playing the file back with a different program? WMP and Winamp3 come to mind.

[yanon]

I guess microsoft's encryption is hard to bypass

The only thing that will play it is windows media player. However, windows media player displays an invalid region message when ever I tried to play it. I have tried to play it with BSplayer but it just wouldn't even recognize the format.

[gd_nimrod]

Well then did you try using Winamp3 to play it?

[yanon]

I think you confuse wmv with wma. WMV is video format. WMA is audio file format. I only heard that Winamp3 can play WMA.

[gd_nimrod]

Originally posted by yanon
I think you confuse wmv with wma. WMV is video format. WMA is audio file format. I only heard that Winamp3 can play WMA.

Well you heard WRONG It can play BOTH "windows media audio" and "windows media video".

[yanon]

yeah, you're right it can play wmv but not region restricted wmv. I guess I am out of luck.