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How to narrow down content protection problems in Update Rollup 2 for Media Center 2005

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As I mentioned in this previous post, some folks have encountered problems playing protected content after upgrading to Update Rollup 2 for Media Center 2005. We are still investigating root causes and trying to determine fixes for various types of protected content errors, and you can help us with this process.

If you think you are encountering a problem playing protected content on your Media Center 2005 machine after installing Update Rollup 2 (or you aren't sure but want to check and make sure you can successfully play protected content) you can try to download and play this Windows Media Audio file on your Media Center. When you download this file and choose to play it, Windows Media Player should display a dialog similar to the following:

Windows Media Player security upgrade dialog

You may also be prompted to back up existing licenses at some point during the process of trying to play this WMA file. If you have one of the content protection problems we have been investigating, installing this security upgrade or backing up licenses will result in an error and should display a numerical error code. For example, you may see a Windows Media Player error dialog with a Secure Storage Protection Error message.

If you encounter any such error, I would really appreciate it if you could post a comment on this blog post or contact me and let me know the exact error code and message that you receive. I will continue to update my blog as we make progress investigating and solving protected content playback issues, so stay tuned for the latest....

There is a new hotfix available as of 4/14/2006 that is designed to fix protected content playback issues in Update Rollup 2 for Media Center 2005. Please try out this hotfix if you have DRM/protected content playback issues in Update Rollup 2.

<update date="4/15/2006"> Added a link to a new DRM hotfix that is now available in case people find and read some of my older blog posts in an attempt to fix this type of issue </update>

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  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2005
    After this dialog; I get the following error message when playing the same file:

    "An audio codec is needed to play this file. To determine if this codec is available to download from the web, click web help"

    With Close and Help options in the button. Clicking on Help leads to the following webpage which states error code as C00D10D1:
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/PLAYER/WEBHELP/DEFAULT.ASPX?ID=C00D10D1&codec=161

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2005
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
    Error code C00D77F

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/articles/487537.aspx

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2006


    error code received was C00D2EFB

    pls. help

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    Hi Prashant - I would suggest that you take a look at the suggestions posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/articles/487537.aspx and see if they help on your system.

  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2006
    As many of you have noticed and posted on my blog in the past (here, here, here&amp;nbsp;and here), there...

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2006
    As I have previously described here and here, some folks have run into problems playing protected content...

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2006
    Hotfix designed to fix this problem
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    There is a new hotfix available as of 4/14/2006 that is...

  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2006
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    April 17, 2006
    Hi Shane - Please let us know whether or not the DRM hotfix solves this protected content playback problem on your system.

    For the Digital Audio Service overlay problem, you might want to check out the other posts I have written about that topic.  There are a few links in the Digital Audio Service errors section of the article at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/articles/487537.aspx.

  • Anonymous
    November 04, 2006
    This article serves as a central location for all links to troubleshooting documentation that has been

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2006
    I tried what you suggested here but like Superplay when I tried playing the wma file I downloaded here I received an error: Windows Media Player cannot play the protected file because the required security upgrade is not available for download.  THis is Error C00D11D0. This is the same thing that is happening when I tried to play the songs I bought from an online store (fliptunes.net). CAn someone please help me here? Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2007
    Hi Desperate_user - If you have Update Rollup 2 for Media Center 2005 installed, there is a hotfix for Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) that is available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913800/en-us.  It might help to install that to resolve tihs issue on your system.