Distro hopping again: freespire

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 11:43:44 UTC 2007


On 16/07/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Mon July 16 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Thanks, Claude. My main problem is MMS streams. For my university
> > lectures, I need full MMS stream support. That means not downloading
> > the full stream, but watching it online, including FF, rewind, pause,
> > slow/fast play, etc. Until now I've been watching them in VMWare
> > running XP. I hate WMP, but I cannot get mPlayer to play these
> > streams, not even in the VM on Windows.
>
> OK - got it. I don't think you're going to have much better luck with
> Freespire on that front, but good luck.
>

Neither do I, but they apparently paid to use some of the Windows
Media technology. Maybe this got included somehow. I'll ask on their
lists once I install.

Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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