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what about windows media support?what about windows media support?Posted Sep 7, 2007 6:05 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)In reply to: what about windows media support? by tetromino Parent article: Microsoft delivers Silverlight 1.0, extends support to Linux
Yes, Microsoft is providing binary downloadable codecs. Their license will, according to Novell, be something along the lines of "must be used inside a web browser". Redistribution rights are not clear as of yet.
Not the best arrangement, but about the same as Flash I guess.
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what about windows media support? Posted Sep 7, 2007 8:32 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Well it's a crapload better then flash.
Still depends on Microsoft's proprietary codecs, but oh well. At least playing videos won't lock my browser every 3rd video.
I hope those wonderfull folks down at the FFMPEG project won't have to difficult of a time extending existing WMV support to the new stuff.
Maybe if we get lucky this will inspire Adobe to open up their own stuff so that people can start doing more interesting and usefull stuff with flash that extends beyond advertisements, 'artistic' splash screens for websites, and playing low-fi homemade videos.
what about windows media support? Posted Sep 7, 2007 9:25 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (guest, #17118) [Link] Well, Moonlight was done with ffmpeg, so it already works. It not commercialy distributable (in USA at least), hence the binary deal with MS.
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