On Nov 20, 2004, at 12:16 PM, Bryon Daly wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:10:00 -0700, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But the fact stands that it was open source code running on Macintosh that accomplished what could not otherwise be done.
... unless you were running that same open source under Linux, Windows, or Solaris. :-)
Yeah, you got me there.
I was really thinking more of how insulated .WMV type files are from MS; they're supposed to be, of course. So my premise was that it would be harder to accomplish grabbing the video on an MS system by the design of the system itself. (Plus an opportunity to get in a dig against Bill.) But this was a question of getting a stream from a redirected source rather than handling the file itself.
Contrarily it's *very* hard to get good manipulation of Win Media files on Mac, which can be frustrating as well. WinMedPlayer runs *very* poorly on OSX -- I use VLC for .WMV files. It gives me a playlist and has much smoother playback than MS's app. And TTBOMK there are no native OSX tools that convert .WMV to other formats, while there are several on Win.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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