On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 01:20 -0500, James Cornell wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > >> That's a crock of crap. That's illegal. Talk about monopoly, > >> there's > >> no legal way for us to play that crappy format. > >> > > > > Actually, my reaction was more along the linues, "SUN has a wide ranging > > IP agreement with Microsoft - why isn't SUN utilising that agreement? or > > is this more "teh going to screw teh Microsoft formats"? > > > > Matthew > > > > > Heh, you got a point there... you know I am not one of those > "Open-source only" guys, I prefer other formats but I do encounter wmv a > fare amount of times throughout the month. Flip4Mac for example is a > working implementation probably based on wmv specifications, which > Microsoft gladly gave up for a little cash, since their format is more > important than money if you can spin it right. Sun definitely needs to > talk to Microsoft about this, since at the moment RealPlayer is one of > the few applications that is decent which can play mp3 and other > patented codecs, as there's still gstreamer (re)licensing gunk plugging > progress. Oh the joys of the GPL... but I don't go any farther with > that, except to say I'm suprised it took this long to get authors to > allow an exception, I'd dump those bits that can't get an exception. > > James
There is always gmplayer/ffmpeg which can be downloaded off: http://ocean1.ee.duth.gr/SolarisX/ It works perfectly. Matthew
