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Windows Forum / Windows Media / Devices / June 2005DSM-320 / WMConnect
Greetings - this is my first post. I have just bought a D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player which is hardwired to the Fast Ethernet socket in my new Dell Dimension PC. The computer is running Windows XP Home Edition SP2, has a fast procesor, plenty of RAM and an almost empty 160Gb hard drive. The DSM-320 has the latest firmware v1.03eu (there is a v1.05eu coming that supports Interner Radio but it's not yet released). The D-Link Media Server software on my PC is the matching v1.03. My intitial problem was that the DSM-320 couldn't play legally downloaded WMA files which had DRM protection. D-Link said that I needed to use Windows Media Connect as alternative Media Server software on my PC. I've downloaded the latest version and this installs and runs apparantly normally. The DSM-320 is listed on the Microsoft site as one of the 4 named Media Players that it supports. But:- 1/ WMConnect sees one device connected to it but it doesn't recognise it as a DSM-320, instead it calls it an "Intel Home"? Clicking on the details of this shows various spec including the note that it won't play DRM files! Does anyone know why WMC is seeing the wrong device? Since there is of course no support from Microsoft for its own program, does anyone here know how to get WMC to see the correct DSM-320? 2/ The D-Link server software on my PC lets the DSM-320 see the media files on the PC and it can access unprotected music files and jpg images and play/display them. But if I run Windows Media Connect then the DSM-320 can still see all the file names but refuses to play any music file apart from the licence-free Beethoven clip that's part of Windoes XP itself. Clicking on any other media file (in the DSM-320 GUI) brings up an error box saying "Unable to open file". Why should ordinary graphic images files be visible to WMC but not openable by it? Has anyone got WMC to actually play DRM-protected WMA files - as it claims it can? Any help will be most gratefully received. David Near London, England. David I believe that your DSM-320 needs to be upgraded to 1.05eu which I think is already released, this may resolve your Digital Rights Management Issue. Richard also in London > Greetings - this is my first post. > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > Near London, England. I believe Richard is correct. According to D-Link's release note on their support site, they started supporting MSDRM starting in firmware 1.04. Once you have upgraded your unit, when you try to connect to the WMC server, the DSM-320 will ask you to authorize the DSM-320 from the PC side via WMC JC > David > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > > > Near London, England. Thankk you to Richard and to JC. I only bought the 320 in May, so you'd think it was shipped with up to date firmware! Oh well. I'll try to get to update itself as suggested. I wonder if either of you actually have a DSM-320 that plays DRM files via WMC? Regards - David > I believe Richard is correct. According to D-Link's release note on their > support site, they started supporting MSDRM starting in firmware 1.04. Once [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > > Richard also in London Yes, I live in US. I have been using Napster with my DSM-320. I am running firmware 1.05 right now on the DSM-320. JC > I believe Richard is correct. According to D-Link's release note on their > support site, they started supporting MSDRM starting in firmware 1.04. Once [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > > > > > Near London, England. It works!!!! Amazing! Having not used the DSM-320 for a few weeks and having previously deleted WMConnect, I downloaded it again from Microsoft (I dodn't know if it was a newer version or the same). I also connected the DSM-320 to the PC with a live broadband conection - it immediately told me that it was upgrading its firmware and proceeded to install v1.05eu (even though the D-Link website still says that 1.03eu is the latest one - on the ball guys?). When I ran the new WMConnect, the DSM-320 recognised it, put up an on-screen message to say that it could now play DRM files, saw all my images and DRM music files and actually plays them! Amazing. No tinkering with the file structure, no need to move files out of the directory and back in again, it just worked. So I've ditched the D-Link server software for the moment and will run with WMC. And the Internet Radio link also worked - unfortunately it only seems to go to Live365 which is full of dated 70's stuff and US preacher pop - not to most European tastes. Perhaps D-Link Europe can arrange a connection to the BBC Internet radio site that's such a good source when accessed via my PC - that has a much better world view of stations. But at least the system works - I'll sign up for their free 30 day trial and write again to D-Link to try to get a better Internat Radio connection. The on-sreen GUI is still very slow (on a 100Mbps hard wired link and a fast modern PC). Since I only have a hundred images and 6 DRM files to start with this is a little worrying, but I'm just delighted that it works. Now to log on to our legal music download sites and start buying files! Does anyone know any sources for internet video by the way? Best regards and thanks for the tips - David. > Yes, I live in US. I have been using Napster with my DSM-320. I am running > firmware 1.05 right now on the DSM-320. > > JC |
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