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List:       ms-wmtalk
Subject:    Re: DRM - wmformatsdk.exe
From:       Iain Downs <idowns () DIRCON ! CO ! UK>
Date:       2003-02-28 10:03:05
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Don't let them panic you.

A single 400 MHz server is plenty for the volumes you are talking about.
In tests a single machine (1GHz) is capable of knocking out 10s of
licenses per second.  Actually encoding a movie takes little more than
file copy resources (well not THAT good, but it more or less is copy ing
the file on a structure by structure basis with a bit of DES on each
chunk).

If you are a decent VB / ASP programmer is should take 2 - 4 days to
knock something up - first rewrite the samples to be less like spaghetti
- that process will show you how it all works.

You DO need a cert to get the DRM SDK from Microsoft.  This will take
the most time of all (I mean the license shit with MS - sometimes it
works and sometimes it takes a while - keep pestering them!).

We are actually still running on V7 as all that required was a PGP cert
and we don't need to upgrade.  But you can't get that any more!


Iain


-----Original Message-----
From: WMTalk [mailto:WMTalk@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM] On Behalf Of Anil
Gupte
Sent: 27 February 2003 18:29
To: WMTalk@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
Subject: Re: DRM - wmformatsdk.exe



This is too scary!  I have to spend $200K just to protect a couple of
files?  Perhaps you have some higher volumes, but we are looking at
encoding maybe one 500MB movie a week at our peak!  Right now, I just
want to encode a sample, maybe 20MB file, and distribute it as a test to
a limited number of people.  If it is successful, we will start doing
maybe one movie a month and work our way up from there.



And I want to do all this on a single, 400mhz server - am I dreaming or
is it possible?  Also, do I need to get a Thawte certificate to do a
test distribution to half a dozen people?  If I remember correctly, I
can use Microsoft's Licensing server and be my own secure certificate
licensing authority, correct?



Any thoughts appreciated.



Thanx,

Anil Gupte
anilgupte@icinema.com
www.icinema.com - where you can watch movies online, all the time
Voice: 414/908-3700
Fax: 888/317-5485 (Toll Free)
324 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 423
Milwaukee, WI 53202

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