[thelist] Linking to a movie - best practice?

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 08:03 +0100, Christian Heilmann wrote:
> On 9/16/05, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 21:51 +0600, Markus Staas wrote:
> > > 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?

As of the last time I checked, it relies on a non-free component to do
so, one which is only compatible with i386 architecture systems (PCs).

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>