[Sussex] I've got Flash now I want to watch movie clips

[G. J. Teale]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 22:18 +0100, Trevor Marshall wrote:
> The 'Video' links on the BBC news page need one of Windows Media Player 
> or RealPlayer.  I /think/ that you can get mplayer to handle Windows - 
> but I don't know how to.  So that leaves RealPlayer, about which some 
> people have strong views.  Geoff may wish to comment here.

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:-)

Well OK, mplayer can handle both Realplayer and WMV format.  From a
pragmatic point of view that's a good thing, but the codec's it uses to
do it aren't free software so that's a compromise at best.

Fortunately the BBC is actively working to replace these formats with
free sofware formats of it's own cunning design, so this situation
shouldn't prevail (on this sight at least).

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