How to Remove DRM from WMV? Use freeme2

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May 25, 2009

Windows Media Video (WMV) was developed by Microsoft and these files are playable using Windows Media Player. There are numerous portable media players available which support WMV playback. You can use a .WMV file for either streaming or downloading. Downloaded Windows Media Files come with the protection by the DRM License itself. If you try to play it for the first time on your PC, then Windows Media Player will try and look for the license on the PC.

It’s explicable that you would like to remove DRM from WMV files. You can play a windows media video file without obtaining a license from the digital rights management server. There are several ways of achieving this task of removing of DRM from WMV. Here are a few of freeware to help you to remove DRM from WMV:

freeme2 (Download freeme2) is a free and open source DRM remover. It is used to remove DRM from Windows Media audio and video files. freeme2 is a command line application. You need to learn how to use console applications to run it.

How to use freeme2 (drag-n-drop)

Drag-n-drop method is much easier than the one using command line console:

Put your DRM protected media files in the same folder as Freeme2.

Extract your license keys. You can do this with drmdbg. If you use drmdbg you can take the drm2-i.key file generated by drmdbg, rename it to drm2.key and copy it to the FreeMe2 folder.

Drag your sample.wma file onto FreeMe2.exe. It starts up and runs fine.

How to use freeme2 (command line console)

Put your DRM protected media files in the same folder as freeme2.

Run the Windows command console: Hit “Start“->Hit “Run…“->type CMD->Hit the “OK” button.

Then, once in the command console, chage the directiry by using the “cd” command to the directory where your FreeMe2 is located.

Extract your license keys. You can do this with drmdbg.

Type the following in the command line console: “freeme2” (without quotes) and press the Enter button.