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

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