[CentOS] Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union.
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chrism at imntv.comMon Jan 1 21:20:05 UTC 2007
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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,
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