MPlayer will do anything WMP will do, IIRC... in the latest version, using the win32 DLL's, anyway. You could also run CrossOver Plugin (trial/$) or WineX (available in CVS for now)...
Does anyone know how the definition of "open-standard format" changes when other programs exist to reada format, even if it still is "closed" -- like how OpenOffice, AbiWord, and KWord can read M$ Word .doc's, and antiword, wv, and a slew of other utilities can convert them... ? reference links: MPLayer: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html CrossOver Plugin: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ WineX: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winex/ http://www.transgaming.com/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta/test-results.html (The file-open on .WMF passes(!), with an error) AbiWord: http://www.abisource.com/ http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/FaqMicrosoftWordDocuments KWord: http://www.koffice.org/kword/ http://www.koffice.org/filters/1.2/index.phtml (no export-to Word format, tho) antiword: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ wv: (used by AbiWord) http://www.wvware.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/ cheers all, and happy April! Ben B PS - Ken, OpenOffice.org currently has a "The Press" link, on the right, to theregister's article that highlights you and your work, titled "Oregon & OSS": http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29635.html On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 17:54, Ken Barber wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 16:40, Ben Huot wrote: > > I'm glad they did put it in RealPlayer format - how many people > > have an Ogg Vorbis player and why should they half to download > > yet another program for multimedia. There is already Windows > > Media Player, Quicktime, Realplayer, Flash, Java, etc. > > At least RealPlayer is cross-platform, and doesn't force anyone to > use a particular operating system in order to see content, as is > the case with WMP. > > The clause that I mentioned earlier would not have forbidden > providing documents in Word (or RealPlayer, or whatever) format; > it would have simply required that they be available in at least > one open-standard format. > > Ken _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
