With respect to 1) I am not aware that any of the major video playing libraries (gstreamer, xine, mplayer, videolan) have native free WMV9 playback because it has yet to be implemented in ffmpeg. Having said that, there is native playback of WMV9 in Linspire which I believe is licenced from MS (see http://lwn.net/Articles/111588/ ). You may also be able to buy WMV gstreamer libraries from Fluendo for (see http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2005-01.html ). If you have the windows DLLs it should be possible to get all 4 of the major video playing systems to watch WMV9 but gstreamer's Win32 library might not have been updated for the 0.10 series.
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