[OT? or not!] TPCA & Palladium (was How to decode '.wmv'?)

jfweber@eternal.net wrote:

** Reply to message from Silviu Marin-Caea on Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:01:54 +0300

**Avoid wmv like the plague. It stands for Windows Media Video, and guess **what, it's proprietary, patented, closed, all the expected crap.

true, however , if you have a reason to , or need these things See Crossover plugins ( they include one for Windows mediaplayer as well as

That if you want to see it in browser, as in a stream from a site. Avoid them like the plague. Write to the site and tell them. I've read this article, just recently. Although a long read, a worthy one for sure. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7erja14/tcpa-faq.html -- Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro Phone +40723-267961