Making Music with FOSS <OT>

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 13:18 -0700, Seattle Chaz wrote:
> Last week, opensource.com hosted a web-cast, Making Music with FOSS.
> I missed it, but I was confident that the media would be archived,
> which is indeed the case.  However, the media file is in the
> proprietary .arf format from WebEx.  Though I searched extensively, I
> was unable to locate a method for converting the file to a more usable
> form.
> 
> Of course, I COULD just view the materials on-line, but where's the
> fun in that?  The download-able media player supports only Windows and
> Mac.  I was about to hold my nose and install the player when I was
> inspired to attempt a Wine installation.  I downloaded the WebEx .arf
> Player, set the executable permission on the .msi file and booted it
> under Wine.  Wine happily took it and installed it and the downloaded
> media played without a hiccup.  

Back in the day, anyone suspected of having anything proprietary at Red
Hat, other than a video driver, was hauled out into the light of day and
shot. Now, we have Red Hat people using a proprietary format for a web
page video? Lord, lord. What hath we done? So, I expressed my
displeasure at that link. Others may feel compelled to do so as well.
Ric



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