[geeks] Powerbook LCD replacement; Windows Media suckage

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:50:28PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:19:43PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > and after that page eventually loaded here, the answer appears to be
> > "Yes, mplayer runs on OS/X, but you're fucked for support on any of the
> > DRM-enabled formats like WMP9."
>  
> What do you expect?  MS won't license the stuff to just any free
> software freek.

Well, yeah, but on Linux/x86 mplayer gets around that by loading the
Windows DLLs.  Can't do that on a Mac.  (Not without running an
emulator or translator, anyway.)


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