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Re: Package to decode wmv video web stream?



Juanjavier Martínez wrote:
>
>> Because i am not really a fan of MS i always try to avoid wmv streams
>> and choose
>> for real-streams when they are available.
>
> Nice. How do you do it? Realplayer streams are also a propietary format,
> so chances
> are that VLC or even Mediaplayer won't cope with it. Or am I wrong? In
> fact I didn't
> try that up until now, so I may be completely wrong...

Works fine for me, automatically most of the time, using MPlayer. The
other times I have to download the embedded file (which turns out to be
plain text) which contains a link that I can use to play the file.

You may need this though:

http://www.live555.com/mplayer/

WMV is more problematic than Real, but still works most of the time.


-- 
George Borisov

DXSolutions Ltd

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