Microsoft is working on an audio and video driver that works better against DRM

It must have happened to you, whenever you run DRM protected audio or video, the PC may go crazy. I’m not talking about Denuvo, it’s already a completely different film. You can use Netflix or similar content as an example, where a method is used to protect the content called Digital Rights Management Software (SWDRM), which will help resolve issues related to driver timeouts when playing protected content in these types of applications.

The thing is, this kind of content is a resource issue, and the current OS driver does not handle them in the best wayespecially in Windows 11. For this reason, those of Redmond have offered to improve it and give it all the love possible so that the process is much more transparent for the user.

Microsoft optimizes digital rights management software evaluation method

In a recent article in the Microsoft Tech Blog, Garrett Duchesne, senior program manager for the American company, explained a little more about the new method of evaluating audio and display drivers. This will analyze what they call “reload events” in software that uses SWDRM.

Devices that experience a code integrity catalog reload event while loading binaries into mfpmp.exe may receive a timeout from Netflix and other apps. This “device-based” metric is used to capture this scenario.

DRM (Digital Rights Management) techniques (software or hardware) are used when playing video on Windows devices. We use the set of all devices with SWDRM reading as the sampling location to calculate the percentage.

This should result in a lower crash error rate for the main driver, and therefore fewer issues for the user.