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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:58:29 +0100
> From: Matthew Wilkes <matt at matthewwilkes.name>
> Message-ID: <8E958EA7-BE45-4A8A-8AAC-82C4774B3E53 at matthewwilkes.name>
> 
> > Hmm, that's not really true dude - you coulda used the 
> VideoLAN plugin 
> > for your browser to access any WMA / ASF streams :
> > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html an you can slap 
> that plugin 
> > into firefox on the Mac.
> 
> But are they official, or something a friendly hacker has 
> made because he was fed up of ASF?  As far as I'm concerned, 
> the BBC should be providing their content in open formats, 
> and not relying on people having to write clients to accommodate them.


I'm not really sure what you mean by official here ? 
You mean the BBC mandated using that player ? For sure, No.

As a viewer, if I want to access a stream which happens to be in a
format which one media player doesn't support (or have a plugin for), I
would look around for another which does.

The open source VLC project has been rattling about for several years,
it makes a half-decent streaming proxy for emergency use, though
principally it's a media player which supports most common and lot of
oddball formats. Plus it's available on all platforms you can think of.
OK perhaps not ZX81 but hey ;-)


Cheers - Neil Smith
MVP Digital Media 2003-2007