Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union.
"The Council of the EU has a streaming service so that we can watch its meetings ? but the service can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows users. This is because they employ WMV format for the videos. In the FAQ they express a really strange opinion about this: 'The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux.' An online petition has been set up to create pressure to convince the EU council to change its service to one that is platform independent." (slashdot)
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody
You are free to sign the petition.
Michel Daggelinckx wrote:
"The Council of the EU has a streaming service so that we can watch its meetings ? but the service can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows users. This is because they employ WMV format for the videos. In the FAQ they express a really strange opinion about this: 'The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux.' An online petition has been set up to create pressure to convince the EU council to change its service to one that is platform independent." (slashdot)
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody
You are free to sign the petition.
Doesn't the VLC player support WMV files? If so, you can use that to view the stream.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
Cheers,
chrism@imntv.com schreef:
Doesn't the VLC player support WMV files? If so, you can use that to view the stream.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
Cheers,
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Its more about europe forceing us to use closed source software. I also wonder if decodeing WMV on linux is legal. This might give the same problems as MP3 does.
Michel Daggelinckx wrote:
Its more about europe forceing us to use closed source software. I also wonder if decodeing WMV on linux is legal. This might give the same problems as MP3 does.
Nearly all media formats contain various patented intellectual property. So do many streaming algorithms. For instance, all the various MPEG layers are full of patented IP.
Seems like the real agenda is to force the EU to use Ogg Vorbis or something equally obscure, so that the windows/mac world has to suffer through as much complexity as the FOSS world is used to.
John R Pierce wrote:
Michel Daggelinckx wrote:
Its more about europe forceing us to use closed source software. I also wonder if decodeing WMV on linux is legal. This might give the same problems as MP3 does.
Nearly all media formats contain various patented intellectual property. So do many streaming algorithms. For instance, all the various MPEG layers are full of patented IP.
Seems like the real agenda is to force the EU to use Ogg Vorbis or something equally obscure, so that the windows/mac world has to suffer through as much complexity as the FOSS world is used to.
Ah, so the fact that it can be viewed with an existing tool doesn't seem to matter to them. *shrug* In any case, this has absolutely nothing to do with CentOS so perhaps the original poster can find a more appropriate venue to engage in rabblerousing....
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