On 2006-01-30, John T wrote:
Couldn't your last comment be an argument for WMV or Real, as well? After
all VLC can play those formats and it's available for just about any OS.

No - VLC can only play WMV on x86 platforms (i.e. PCs). It can't play
WMV on a PowerPC Macintosh or Linux on non-x86 systems, including amd64.

It plays WMV =9 on a Linux system by using the Microsoft codec (which
is available only for x86 processors).

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