wish I had some moderator points. It was called Netshow. I've used (and since uninstalled) it too. I can't believe that the top scored post in this discussion is a vaporware claim. Admittedly, it looks like they've since pulled it from their site, but check out this Techweb article from 1998.
yeah sure! and what does it play? almost nothing, certainly not mpeg4-asfs that is the only interesting format used today.
Maybe the WINE people should be making an extra special effort to target specific, needed applications (such as Media Player) and get them working asap.
I tried a build of WINE from last week and while a bunch of stuff did work properly, media player didn't.
Why would people write anything for linux if you could emulate a program that already does what is needed? Think about why C128 almost never was run as a C128, but mostly as a C64. And maybe OS/2 would have beaten Windows if there was no possibility to run Windows-programs through an emulator?
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Yes, it's really him.
http://www.cnn.no/TEKNOLOGI/IT/ 0001/25/5838915.html if you can read norwegian.