[X Newbies] video on the Internet

Steven Rogers srogers1 at austin.rr.com
Tue Apr 6 15:01:28 PDT 2004


On Apr 6, 2004, at 4:21 PM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 9:33 AM -0500 4/6/04, Steven Rogers wrote:
>>> At 6:38 AM -0400 4/6/04, John Park wrote:
>>>> Question: Can I play the .asf file with something else, like imovie?
>>>
>>> Try (search MacUpdate &/or VersionTracker) VLC or MPLayer.
>>
>> Those are fine, but to get back to the original question, there's 
>> nothing particularly "bad" about Windows Media Player.
>
> "to get back to the original question" ???
>
> I replied to one of the "original" questions - I've always taken the 
> term, in list context, to mean the questions posed by the original 
> poster. Has this changed? Or did you mean the "other" question?

I meant the "original" question, in that I assumed that fears of 
something sneaky about Windows Media Player led to the subsequent 
question about whether there's an alternate player. Is there any 
features that might distinguish any of them?

SR



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