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.

Nah, I get

$ /opt/gnu/bin/mplayer
ld.so.1: mplayer: fatal: libucb.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed


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