[bratwurst]

okay, ive shot a new video.. maybe placebo you can publish its download link in the first post of this thread. it's rather long (~2 hours ) and doesnt contain any trouble shooting because it is a safe way to get to case2 including the download time of the needed material. here the quick instruction steps for a WindowsXP-SP3 system (you may need to reboot in between) for overview, otherwise you get lost while watching the long video:

1. check your IBX version. it is the "high IBX" version, right? and currently you dont have any Zune subscription nor any (old) Zune account (login : pass), right?
2. first uninstall Zune (if it is present on your system), then downgrade your Windows Media Player to WMP9 (any version of WMP 9.00.00.???? is good!),
3. reset the DRM environment. as a last step, delete the full DRM folder contents! and dont visit the indvpages!!
4. go to BBC Iplayer TV webpage and download a video in the Windows Media format (*.WMV), it's FREE and DRM-protected!
5. play the *.WMV video from hdd with WMP9. this step will individualize your system automatically!
6. upgrade your Windows Media Player to (the highest version possible of) WMP10
7. play the *.WMV video from hdd with your WMP10+. this step will upgrade your security components automatically!
8. install Windows Media Format Runtime 11 Beta 2, and reboot
9. at this (latest) point, test FairUse4WM on the *.WMV file
10. visit the two indvpages and check if they are working (Press the Upgrade button, and refresh the page with F5 several times.); after that close/exit Internet Explorer
11. check your IBX version. it is the "low IBX" version, right? And the file date&time has been updated to your current time, right? Then you're on a working "low IBX" DRM-environment. The remainder is the default procedure:
12. install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (if it isnt installed yet), then install Zune 4.8 (zune-x86.msi); launch zune.exe and observe how the IBX file date is updated to the current time. Play some 30sec preview songs and observe how the drmstore.hds grows a little in size. exit zune. launch zune, repeat the fooling around, exit zune, launch zune, repeat the fooling around, etc. Exit zune.
13. check your IBX version again. it is still the "low IBX" version, right? And the file date&time has been again updated to your current time, right? This confirms that you're on a working "low IBX" DRM-environment. Congratulations, your system is Zune-ready!
14. now sign up for Zune subscription FREE trial (feel free to use your old account if you have one), login, download some 192kbps *.WMA-albums/songs, and use FairUse4WM v1.3 (fix0, fix1, fix2, fix3, fix4, ... doesnt matter!) to undrm the songs. The DRM-protected Windows Media files (*.WMV, *.WMA) wont play in your customized Windows Media Player but the undrm'ed versions do!
15. From now on, dont tinker with the DRM Reset tools anymore and dont touch the running system: The system (WMP10+ & WMFR11beta2 & zune-x86.msi & low IBX) will remain stable. The following step16 on top is optional and serves demonstrational purpose only:
16. You can update your Windows Media Player (WMP10+) to WMP11 (beta, final, doesnt matter!) if you really want/need it for personal reasons . As you could see so far, Zune doesnt require WMP11 nor WMP11beta. In fact, Zune hardly uses any WMP components but only some of its DRM-related *.DLL's, so Zune wouldnt and doesnt care if your Windows Media Player is WMP10, WMP11beta, or WMP11final. Of course, you cant install neither the original Microsoft full download package of WMP11final nor of Zune setup package (270MB)... because this would, too, install the latest/final version of Windows Media Format Runtime 11, which in turn will upgrade the IBX to the high IBX version. So here's what you can do without harming your working "low IBX" environment, any of the following three options is safe to perform:
    • If you want to end up with WMP11beta:
      Simply install the full version of Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2. That simple!!
    • If you want to end up with WMP11final:
      With Winrar, open the full version of Windows Media Player 11 and then extract the file called "wmp11.exe". Double-click on it: this will upgrade your WMP10+ to WMP11final.
    • If you want to end up with WMP11final:
      You could do the above two in sequence: Install the full version of WMP11beta2, reboot the PC, install wmp11.exe (extracted from the full final version), reboot the PC, done.

It's interesting to note that the full Zune 4.8 setup package (270MB) contains Windows Media Format Runtime 11 Beta 3, and not the final version. So the key Beta Version is indeed the 11 Beta 2, because the 11 Beta 1 is too DRM crippled and hardly works at all, the 11 Beta 3 upgrades to high IBX version, and the Final 11 upgrades to the high IBX version anyway.

The above set of instructions (16 steps! ) sounds like a long path to go. This is true only if you're not on a WinXP-SP3 system with the original (i.e. never upgraded from WMP9 and never downgraded back to WMP9) WMP9 installation and if you cant setup a UK proxy or UK vpn for the access to BBC downloads. I actually know several other (shorter) ways to get to "case2" but I am sharing in public only the above set of instructions because they dont involve any credit card or registrations or subscriptions, are FREE and guaranteed to work in future. The only critical step is step2, that's why the video does not start off with an intentionallly dirty WindowsXP-SP3 system but with a fresh Windows installation (+ installed Internet Explorer 8).

Check out the long video (feel free to post it on youtube or whatever) and post your questions (problems, troubleshooting, ..) regarding my set of instructions, thanks!