[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

Please forward !

The Council of the EU has a streaming service so that we can watch its
meetings — but the service can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows
users. This is because they employ WMV format for the videos. In the FAQ
they express a really strange opinion about this: 'The live streaming
media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on
Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a
legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux.' An online petition has
been set up to create pressure to convince the EU council to change its
service to one that is platform independent.

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The "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union" should be
available for everybody and not only for Mac and MS Windows users.
Change the service in that way, that also linux/bsd/.. user can use it.
One Solution would be to use the free theora codec for the videos.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody


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