[Gllug] .asx and Linux

[Stig Brautaset]

* Chris Ball <chris at cpan.org> spake thus:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:13:46PM +0000, Darren Evans wrote:
> > I noticed a mention of codeweavers.com on a usenet post however
> > cannot see any programs that will play a Windows Media stream
> > on Linux yet, anyone know different.
> 
> mplayer and avifile link to Windows dlls in order to play DivX ;-) files
> and .asfs. I'd imagine the same dlls may contain the Windows Media codec.

That's correct. However, there is a free alternative to using the win32
codec's now (for mplayer) called libavicodec (IIRC). I found that it
works better than the win32 codecs. Yay!

Regards, Stig

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