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Windows Media Player 9

Posted by michael on from the more-restrictions,-fewer-features dept.

captainclever writes "The Register has an interesting article about the posibilities for WMP Clients for Linux. Would anyone want to use MS WMP in Linux?" See also a news.com story.

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  1. Xine! by essdodson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After reading about the DeCSS case I finally decided to sit down and devote some time to getting DVD playback on my FreeBSD system. Xine seems to work pretty well. I'd prefer seing Xine and mplayer move forward rather than have WMP.

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  2. Windows Media Player under Mac OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey it is wishful thinking that WMP for Linux would solve many of your media playing wishes. However, from my experience useing WMP (current) for Mac OS X (10.2) not all media is playable. Nor does the WMP work nicely with browsers other than IE.

    In one word MS doesn't fully support WMP on any platform other than Windows. I must admit some of the problems are due to third party hack up solutions. (read tuning in to your fav air wave station over the internet) Maybe MS would provide some plug-in architecture to improve its media playing abilities.

  3. Re:It's the GUI. by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I would question this. I recently put a Win98 user in front of my FreeBSD box, with KDE and Mozilla set up for them. They had no problems whatsoever.

    This person has the technical clue and geek thinking abilities of a small piece of cheese, and they did just fine - Mozilla, KsIRC, KDE Patience (Freecell!), MP3 playing, KWord for editing their .DOC resume ...

    I realise I'm working from a sample of one here, but IMO, KDE 3 is ready for prime time. The Unix usability problem is solved. The hard part now is greater application integration, easy hardware support and so on.

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