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Windows Media Player in Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the options-if-you-want-em dept.

mr lee writes "Today CodeWeavers released CrossOver plugin 1.1 which now supports Windows Media Player 6.4 under Linux. As much I would not like to see or support sites that use Windows Media shite, its still really nice to have this option. Not too mention kick ass QuickTime playing." Update: 02/27 18:30 GMT by H : I've actually been using this - it's done really really well. I'm planning on doing a fuller review soon, but it's very well done.

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  1. [OT] Re:No native version? by Cpyder · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I used it a few times, mostly to play the .asf video of Win98 crashing for Bill Gates at a computer conference..
    ..which was a fake crash, probably to get some press (which it did) under the credo "bad publicity is worse than no publicity"...
    The BSOD appeared on the screen with a nice powerpoint "wipe in" transition...

  2. Re:Likely Not Legal by Tet · · Score: 1, Redundant
    IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY LICENSED COPY OF ANY VERSION OR EDITION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98, [...] YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL [...] THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA

    Not a problem. I have several valid Windows licenses. They came with various computer bits I've acquired over the years. I don't use them, but that's another matter. The wording of the EULA says that if I have a license, I can install with a clean conscience. It doesn't say I have to install on Windows, either, or that I have to have a license for each machine I install on. Just that I need to be in possession of a license. Which I am...

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  3. Re:HOW ABOUT by rseuhs · · Score: 1, Redundant
    How about:

    'Free' software only really appeals to those people that refuse to pirate...

    I've "discovered" the fact that i can't switch many people to Linux because they better like pirating Windows stuff. The very second things become unpirateable, they'll start bitching like babies and will run to Linux OR pay for cheap alternatives to the defacto standards of today.

    Somebody please mod that up, it's the most insightful post I've seen around here for a couple of *months*.

  4. Re:Likely Not Legal by matusa · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Hmm, I disagree. Maybe what you say is somewhere else in the EULA .. but anyway:
    IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY LICENSED COPY OF ANY VERSION OR EDITION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98, MICROSOFT WINDOWS MILLENUM EDITION, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 OPERATING SYSTEM OR ANY MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM THAT IS A SUCCESSOR TO ANY OF THOSE OPERATING SYSTEMS (EACH AN "OS PRODUCT"), YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.

    All I see here is the fact that you need a copy of windows to use this. But you can definitely use it on linux (or any other), given this.
  5. Re:Likely Not Legal by Ambush · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Slow down there pardner...

    I'm running Linux, yet I own a copy of Windows 95. So, according to the EULA I can legally install and use WMP under Linux.

    Having said that, I wonder how long it will take MSFT to ammend their EULA to specify that it must be installed under Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP/whatever.

    *sigh*

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  6. Re:Likely Not Legal by Alan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What if I have a "validly licensed copy" of windows, but it's not installed?

  7. Re:You can use Wine to do this by redcliffe · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I've never used codeweaver's stuff, and I've been running WMA 6.4 under wine CVS for over a year.

    David