On Wednesday 13 June 2001 20:46, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:49:12PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: > > Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station > > offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? > > Nope. Can't be done. Quicktime is a patented codec, so that's out > (conceivably some company could create a binary only program for Linux > to play it, but it hasn't happened yet). Microsoft naturally hasn't > released the necessary programming bits for somebody to create a Windows > Media Player decoder for Linux. I am a bit surprised that nobody has > reverse engineered it, but maybe nobody has been inspired enough. > > noah
Thanks. That's sort of what I suspected. I'm going to suggest to the broadcaster that they consider something that can be handled by realplayer. - Ed
