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yesidowindows:
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Wow this linux thing sounds like a challenge! I am not sure i am up to it though. with my luck i would screw up my puter. lol i cannot play my .wma files for some reason it says they are corrupt something about the license. i am pissed! I have over 50 downloaded from kazaa and not media player says their licence is corrupt! Is there a way to convert those files to MP3 and change the license properties?

voidmain:
Ha ha ha ha!!! I love it. Stick with M$ and there will be more of that coming. Forget those proprietary Microsoft media formats, use/get OGG format if at all possible. And don't use a stupid player like Windows Media Player. It's just a sign of things to come. You'll see much more of this when Palladium comes around... It's just Microsoft deciding for you what you are allowed to run on your own damn computer.

And about being scared of fucking up your computer by trying to install Linux.  Your computer is already fucked up by having Windows on it, you can only unfuck it up by installing Linux.

BTW, I spent 3 years in Germany. Spangdahlem..

[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Calum:
no there is no way to convert them unless you can open them in the first place. even then, you will likely find it difficult or impossible to do so without some quick and dirty 3rd party app.

my suggestion, don't use proprietary formats like .wmv, .wma, and even .avi (all Microsoft formats), and while we're at it, i'd suggest avoiding .ra, .ram and .rm files too, as these are a deadend format proprietary to real networks. these cannot be converted to another format reliably either (well .ra can, but again, you need a quick and dirty 3rd party app to do it)

What void main says is true about not being able to play your music and video, if you read the news, you will see that Microsoft are currently heading an initiative to make music and video as unplayable as possible on any computer. I am convinced that mp3 is the current format of choice (even though it is proprietary) however ogg may prove to be the survivor of that race, it is too early to tell.

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
no there is no way to convert them unless you can open them in the first place. even then, you will likely find it difficult or impossible to do so without some quick and dirty 3rd party app.

my suggestion, don't use proprietary formats like .wmv, .wma, and even .avi (all Microsoft formats), and while we're at it, i'd suggest avoiding .ra, .ram and .rm files too, as these are a deadend format proprietary to real networks. these cannot be converted to another format reliably either (well .ra can, but again, you need a quick and dirty 3rd party app to do it)

What void main says is true about not being able to play your music and video, if you read the news, you will see that Microsoft are currently heading an initiative to make music and video as unplayable as possible on any computer. I am convinced that mp3 is the current format of choice (even though it is proprietary) however ogg may prove to be the survivor of that race, it is too early to tell.
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Life sucks, but since I wanted to be able to watch Southpark in linux, I downloaded Real Player 8 for linux and it actually works pretty good. Unlike the newer versions of realplayer for MS systems, this one doesnt come with all the bloatware/spyware, and is fully featured. Now all I need is a quicktime player for linux and Im set.

By the way, how is mp3 proprietary? I know mp3's can be played on any OS, and the technology for creating them is free.

[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

pkd_lives:
The format of MP3 is under patent. Companies who produce software to make MP3s are meant to license it. Although I think enforcement is not strictly enforced there is the potential for the patent owners to say no more and refuse you the right to use the format. Most of their money comes from playback media, portable MP3 players and the like.

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