Re: Windows Media Player to be ported to Linux

["Marty Leisner" <leisner rochester rr com>]

This is a real pain.

There was an alpha I got several years ago...but it doesn't support
anything around now.

I'm really frustrated with commercial sites which have windows
media play and not realaudio.

Microsoft doesn't do it for the same reason office doesn't run on
other platforms -- they want to sell platforms
(the platform business accounts for a very large part of microsofts
product).

I'd be interested if there is a mailing list which "reports"
sites which use WindowsMedia and not realaudio (lots of sites support
both).  Then the readers of the list would "complain" to the site
administrators.

Is there an opensource solution solution for streaming media?
I'd be interested.

Marty Leisner


Brian Sea <sea@umr.edu> writes  on Wed, 02 Feb 2000 07:57:22 CST
     > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:54:10AM -0600, Daniel Hauck wrote:
     > > I just read on http://www.Linuxworldexpo.com that there is a Microsoft plan
     > > to port its Media Player to Linux.  Anyone else aware of this?  I think some
     > > gnome developers should volunteer their services to be sure MS does it right
     > > (which is 'better than under windows').  I think it would be strange for
     > > them not to write a dialog box saying "the sound resources are in use but we
     > > can still play sounds!"
     > > 
     > > 
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     >  MS has been saying that a UNIX port was "right around the corner" for about 2 
     > years now, so dont hold your breath.  This implementation will be 
     > closed-sourced, so I doubt gnomers wil be able to help
     > 
     >   It would be nice though.
     > 
     > Brian Sea
     > sea@umr.edu
     > 
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