Windows Media Player in Linux 340
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.
what about Mplayer (Score:4, Informative)
Re:No native version? (Score:4, Informative)
See http://www.vnunet.com/News/105831 [vnunet.com] and http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981009
Too late (Score:4, Informative)
Re:No native version? (Score:4, Informative)
I used it a few times, mostly to play the
Few comments on crossover 1.1.0 (Score:5, Informative)
The crossover plugin will let you play Windows media player files, but emedding inside the browser is very problematic. Why? simple - The Windows Media player when works with Netscape - uses Netscape's Java (1.1.x) to communicate with the player and to embedd the window.
What does this means to you? it means that you can watch WMP embedded in your browser - if you're using the old Netscape - Version 4.x - not Konqureror, not Mozilla (any build).
It's not CodeWeaver's fault - it's the way MS did it - the exact thing will happend on Windows. The guys from CodeWeavers will look into it and probably try to hack something..
Other features that are not mentioned - you can now use Trillian, Real Player 8 (the much better Windows version, not the crappy Linux version), you can install fonts directly from MS web site, and the speed seems to be imrpvoed.
Lots of other plugins has been added to the crossover, and IMHO it's worth the $19.95 price (there is a free upgrade to previous owners), and of course - all the hacks that was done to wine - are rolling back to the main tree - so your money helps open source...
I'm sure that people here will write that "don't buy it since it support non standard audio/video format" - to them I'm saying that when 90% of the people have those players - webmasters won't give a crap about others...
Cheers,
Mesh Mesh
Reading For Comprehension 101. (Score:3, Informative)
That's all well and good, but Mr. Lee wasn't talking about Quicktime under Windows. He said, and I quote:
He is clearly referring to using the Crossover Plugin to play Quicktime under Linux, which it indeed does a "kick-ass" job of doing.
You might want to have that jerking knee attended to by a physician.
Re:what about Mplayer (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/formats.h
"Codecs: any codecs allowed, both CBR and VBR. Note: most new mov files use Sorenson video and QDesign Music audio. These formats are completely secret, and only Apple's quicktime player is able to play these files (on win/mac only)."
So it basically doesn't support MOV except some old stuff.
Re:[OT] Re:No native version? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Codecs (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Likely Not Legal (Score:3, Informative)
Posession of the license is key, not having an installed copy of Windows.
Re:Ever tried to (Score:2, Informative)
then view > options > formats > hit select all then ok. close mplayer2 and run some windows media formats. you'll notice that you get the old one back without using the wmp8 hog.
Re:Don't support Windows Media. (Score:2, Informative)
Supported formats current include "MPEG, VOB, AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, and some RealMedia files", as well as "MPEG, VOB, AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, and some RealMedia files", to quote from the information on mplayer's site.
Re:Likely Not Legal (Score:5, Informative)
CodeWeaver's is, however, looking for a way around this for those of us who have Windows installed on another partition.
Re:great! (now i want to (get rid of) my real1 pla (Score:3, Informative)
For Windows Media, try avifile, PythonTheater, xine, or mplayer. Though it is good they are working towards this stuff, Windows Media Player through wine is inelegant, since the overhead imposed by wine and the lack of XVideo support makes media playback bad. Only reason to tolerate QuickTime through wine is because there is no other option for Sorenson encoded media...
More Windows Media (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Likely Not Legal (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Likely Not Legal (Score:3, Informative)
I really wonder what happened after that, did they find a way around the license?. Anyway, long life to the great wine community
Cheers,
Don Inodoro
Browser embedding (Score:3, Informative)
Plugger recently updated to 4.0, be sure you're using that version. Plugger can be had from:
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
BTW. I was able to compile it under Debian PowerPC and it worked fine there.
Re:what about Mplayer (Score:3, Informative)
Comparing the two:
Re:Few comments on crossover 1.1.0 (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:My girlfriend can finally use linux (Score:3, Informative)
Word and Excel run using Wine (not sure about Publisher...never really heard of it). OpenOffice is also a suitable replacement for those programs in almost every case (hasn't failed on me for any Word or Excel documents, and sometimes opens documents better than the "real" Office!)
Re:Likely Not Legal (Score:2, Informative)
Just because Windows isn't installed doesn't mean you can't run WMP8 legally.
Simple.
Windows Media Server on Linux (Score:3, Informative)
Last year a company called Starbak [starbak.com] released a streaming server on Linux that supports Window Media Technology (WMT). They built the server from scratch without using any Microsoft code. They initiated OEM discussions with several companies. These large companies got nervous about a reverse engineered server and wanted Starbak to get a license from Microsoft. Suprisingly, Microsoft didn't object and licensed the technology to Starbak. Starbak lists Microsoft as a partner and they talk about Microsoft licensing WMT to Starbak.
From the Starbak [starbak.com]
"STARBAK has a Windows Media Technology (WMT) server license to support the delivery of WMT to the desktop over the company's proprietary embedded operating system (OS) platform. This WMT licensing event represented a first for the streaming media industry"
The proprietary embedded OS is actually Linux.
Microsoft was even willing to license the source code to other companies to port WMT to other OSes. I don't think anyone has taken them up on their offer.
Re:Few comments on crossover 1.1.0 (Score:3, Informative)
First near bottom of screen clcik on "Previous Player Versions"
Then the tiny "Realplayer 8 Basi is our free player" link. Then select UNIX to get new form, then you must select a Linux 2.x version to get the right screen next (rpm or tar, doesn't matter). Then ignore the download links and scroll down below item number 5.. There you are....
To shortcut to the Unix form, here is url:
http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/u