[thelist] Linking to a movie - best practice?

[Christian Heilmann]

On 9/16/05, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 21:51 +0600, Markus Staas wrote:
> > If it is not absolutely necessary I would just link to it using text links,
> > thus enabling the user to decide to either download it to the desktop (by
> > using the "save link as..." feature) or just click on it to view it while it
> > is streaming.
> >
> > It is common practice to offer the Windows Media Format and Quicktime for
> > the user to choose what to view.
> 
> Neither of these formats are viewable on free operating systems running
> exclusively free software. I would recommend at least one of MPEG-1 or
> Ogg Theora as a third alternative.

I thought FFMPEG/mplayer does support WMV?