Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > 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 > > Thanks Matthew.
James
