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Real to offer Windows Media on Linux
Calum:
did somebody already say that mplayer has had windows mediocre player support for years?
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Calum ---did somebody already say that mplayer has had windows mediocre player support for years?
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Not explicitly, but that was what we were talking about with respect to the windows media player codecs. It doesn't have open source support for WMP codecs in the way that xmms supports mp3, it uses the same codecs that WMP does. You can copy them from Windows if you want.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Well, I dunno, I never liked Real Player ... besides most Window$ Media formats are shit. But, whatever, I'm sure other people will have less problems setting up a media player than can handle almost anything on Linux. (Mplayer handles most anything currently)
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Ok, maybe it wasn't as explicit as it should have been, but yes I have yet to find something mplayer can't handle.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---Not explicitly, but that was what we were talking about with respect to the windows media player codecs. It doesn't have open source support for WMP codecs in the way that xmms supports mp3, it uses the same codecs that WMP does. You can copy them from Windows if you want.
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Can't it play them via ffmpeg?
--- Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mplayer ---Most video and audio codecs are supported natively through the libavcodec library of the FFmpeg project.
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--- Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg ---FFmpeg have reverse-engineered and reimplemented, among others:
* The Sorenson 3 Codec used by many QuickTime movies
* Advanced Streaming Format
* Windows Media Audio
* Windows Media Video (and thereby also the associated DivX hack)
* QDesign Music Codec 2, used by many QuickTime movies prior to QuickTime 7.
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WMD:
They probably mean the older Microsoft MPEG-4 video, not the infamous WMV9 format.
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