Re: [tlug] Linux Windows Media Player Protocal not supported?!!!

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

BOTi (9915104t@example.com) wrote:

> afaik mplayer can play .wmf files. for free.

Apparently so.  From the docs:

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ASF (active streaming format) comes from Microsoft. They developed two variants
of ASF, v1.0 and v2.0. v1.0 is used by their media tools (windows media player
and windows media encoder) and is very secret. v2.0 is published and
 patented :). Of course they differ, there is no compatibility at all (it is
just another legal game). MPlayer supports only v1.0, as nobody has ever seen
v2.0 files :). Note that ASF files nowadays come with the extension .WMA
or .WMV.
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But who cares? :-)

Jonathan