I know it's not what you are looking for, but I just watched it using Camino 
with WMP :)

Pretty funny too ;)

Adam.

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:31:13 -0500, paulc wrote:
> I brought this up before, but have some additional information. The 
> "issue" is accessing video content in wmv format in Camino. I had 
> decided that one perfectly reasonable approach was with a product 
> called "flip4mac." This is a QuickTime component that allows any 
> application that can use the QuickTime architecture to play the file.
> 
> Camino refuses to do this, instead showing a broken plug-in icon. A 
> simple test scenario I set up on my website (it's funny video of xmas 
> lights around a house run amok) which displays the broken plug=in 
> icon in Camino:
> 
> http://paulc.com/test
> 
> Use my test link in Safari and it acts for all the world like a 
> QuickTime file... i.e. it uses the "native" controller" and the video 
> plays.
> 
> I liberally use the news sites on the web; I have been noticing that 
> more and more content at cnn.com is delivered in video (wmv) format. 
> Again, in Camino it doesn't even come close to working. Safari was 
> interesting in that it gave me a screen saying it couldn't detect 
> whether I had the correct version installed, but gave me an option to 
> simply play the video. Which it did quite nicely. Exiting Safari and 
> re-launching it now simply plays the video.
> 
> I understand the "Camino can't be everything to everybody" quite 
> well, but I also feel that this is a serious issue. I guess the 
> question is do the developers also think this?
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