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1. Fernando said:

   Excellent interview, very impressive! Just one point: the "Download" link does allows you to download, it points to a stream (mms://...). How can we really download the interview?

   posted at 07:22AM 04/06/2006
2. Marcelo said:

   I can't access streaming media at my job, but it's allowed to download videos, like .MPEG, .AVI, .WMV, .MOV, etc.
   Would you please provide a link to really download the video.
   Or else a written version?! A full transcription of this interview.

   posted at 11:04AM 04/06/2006
3. Unknown said:

   Open Source Lab gives us a WMV! And you guys research compatibility? Hmm...

   posted at 12:15PM 04/06/2006
4. Nektar said:

   Interix has some limitations that have to be addressed:
   1. It does not include many useful tools that other environments such as Cygwin do. It does not include most tools that you expect to find on a Linux system.
   2. It is not free like Cygwin but the latest SUA implementation requires a Windows Server 2003 R2 license. What about Windows XP? Why wasn't SFU3.5 updated? The same goes for Vista that only the Enterprise version will include it. And who will get the Enterprise version? Only volume licensors. Not many. No students certaintly.
   3. Interix has not XWindow server.
   4. Many tools you have to download from the Interopsystems company and they are not free. Whilst with Cygwin they are more numerous and they are free.

   posted at 01:19PM 04/06/2006
5. Rodney said:

   > 4. Many tools you have to download from the Interopsystems company and they are not free.
   
   You're wrong there. All of the downloads are free. You only have to
   register (which is also free).
   

   posted at 02:39PM 04/06/2006
6. BG said:

   They can keep wmv videos here if they'd like; they just need to release an OSS codec for wmv for us.

   posted at 05:41PM 04/06/2006
7. anonymous said:

   Is there any open source codec for WMV3? My VLC player can play mms streams, but it can't play WMV3.

   posted at 05:52PM 04/06/2006
8. TheNetAvenger said:

   If your player doesn't support wmv, don't flame MS.
   
   In 2003 MS and 2004 MS submitted WMV to an OPEN standards body and WMV is now a standard video format, just like MPEG4 and MPEG2.
   
   This is why all new HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD format players MUST support both MPEG4 and WMV.
   
   Go look up VC-9 and WMV and the standards process.

   posted at 07:14PM 04/06/2006
9. John Welch said:

   Oh please, the only WMV support for non-Microsoft platforms is two versions old without DRM, and far older with DRM.
   
   Yeah, WMV as a way to show you get non-MS platforms? Not so good.

   posted at 07:36PM 04/06/2006
10. Azrael said:

    WMV is a legit format, and does not require much effort to play even using entirely open source software. If you are using any form of linux, it should be relatively easy to install mplayer, a movie player that will play virtually any format. If you have a legit Windows install, it can even play newer WMV9DMO format.
    See http://www.mplayerhq.hu
    For any interested Windows users, mplayer does have a win32 version, also available from their site.
    Thank you, and let's not flame these guys unless they give us good reason to.

    posted at 07:52PM 04/06/2006

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