On 10/14/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/10/06, Jason Spiro jasonspiro4+news@gmail.com wrote:
How could the Ogg codecs be made auto-downloadable into WMP?
By, through a global popular revolution, stripping Microsoft of their intellectual property rights and, upon copylefting Windows Media Player, making it compatible with open and free formats.
Um. Or ... we could get a contact and point out that the formats we're using are open speced with BSD licensed reference implimentations, and er.. unlikely to compete with their formats due to a lack of support for DRM.
:)
I won't hold my breath, but there is no glaring reason beyond lack of demand that they wouldn't support it in the codec installer. There are many non-msft codecs which are installed that way, ... I would expect there is a procedure for getting supported. I haven't had time to research it yet.
It would be quite amusing to see MSFT with support for Ogg/* in IE before firefox gained any open video format support. :)