PlayReady Update failure

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Post by byronomo » Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:09 pm

rasheedb wrote:this worked for me:

1) Quit Windows Media Center if running.

2) Open a cmd prompt - run as administrator.

3) Run the following commands one at a time:

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net stop ehrecvr
cd %programdata%\Microsoft\PlayReady
del *.hds
rmdir /s Cache
cd %programdata%\Microsoft\ehome
del *.hds
rmdir /s Cache
net start ehrecvr
4) Run Windows Media Center. Update PlayReady by going through Tasks, Settings, TV, TV Signal, Update PlayReady.
Thanks for your help! This worked for me today!

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Post by 1454 » Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:56 pm

I don't have a playready failure, but I do have an issue where when I add my new ram it won't play back old recordings that are CP. Is there a way to add the new ram without tripping this? I am going from 667 ram to 1333 and 8 gb to 16. I tried even leaving the old ram in just to see if it would fool WMC into allowing the other to play and no such luck.

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Post by richard1980 » Mon Aug 10, 2015 12:40 am

If you change too much hardware between the time the recording is authored and the time it is played, PlayReady will not allow you to play the recording. The only solution is to reverse your changes.

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Post by kd6icz » Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:50 pm

So this might be my issue as well. I copied all my recorded content from my 18TB RAID to a single 3TB drive in preparation for setting up a SD DVR system. Now 24 hours later my system popped up with PlayReady Update and it failed.

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Post by werds » Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:20 pm

rasheedb wrote:this worked for me:

1) Quit Windows Media Center if running.

2) Open a cmd prompt - run as administrator.

3) Run the following commands one at a time:

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net stop ehrecvr
cd %programdata%\Microsoft\PlayReady
del *.hds
rmdir /s Cache
cd %programdata%\Microsoft\ehome
del *.hds
rmdir /s Cache
net start ehrecvr
4) Run Windows Media Center. Update PlayReady by going through Tasks, Settings, TV, TV Signal, Update PlayReady.
Thank goodness I found this post again! I tried all the other ways of resetting DRM and they didn't work - just cloned my small SSD to a larger one and was having playready issues - this fixed it and WAF is back up!

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Post by Dragonfly » Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:08 am

Unfortunately this method didn't work for me. I have PlayReady update failure on a brand new Win7/64 install. Fortunately not a huge problem for me because I seldom if ever have the occasion to watch protected content.

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