[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Martin A. Brooks]

salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> 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.

Kindly cease this bollocks. There's _nothing_ stopping you watching the 
stream with many Linux media players. I'm watching some _right now_ 
using VLC for example.

_They_ don't _provide support_ for people not using the approved 
players. This is not the same as saying "you can't use Linux to watch 
the streams", patently you can, I'm doing so right now and there's no 
black helicopters hovering outside my house. Okay their wording isn't 
great, I'll grant you that.

Did you read this on slashdot or something? It sounds like their kind of 
knee-jerk reaction.


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