Microsoft Media player now runs on Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:29:56AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> Turbo Linux has created a media player for Linux that uses Microsoft media 
> player code.  While it doesn't sound like a native port of media player 
> (misleading title) it is interesting that Microsoft would allow any of their 
> code to be used on Linux:
> 
>   http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15547

Is that any more impresive than just using mplayer which can run most
win32 codecs already?  I use it for avi's with divx, xvid, quicktimes,
realmedia, etc.

Lennart Sorensen
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