My school does some courses over the web with streaming video (WMV, of course). After the class session they make the whole WMV video available as a download. I've been burning them to CD, but I hate to keep them in WMV format, I'd rather use an open format. Speaking of which, what is a good open format for video (preferably one that MPlayer supports since I already have it).
Open? WMV is an open format. Thanks to all those hackers working on projects like mplayer, xine and ffmpeg. Perhaps you mean a free, "you won't be threatened ever with a patent infringement suit" format? You might try checking out <http://www.theora.org/> and the Matroska (maybe google can spell-check that one for you ;-) project.
Good point. I did mean free 8)
-Roberto
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