[Ubuntu-be] Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union."

[Michel Daggelinckx]

Tom Van Looy schreef:
> "The Council of the EU has a streaming service so that we can watch its
> meetings ? but the service can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows
> users. This is because they employ WMV format for the videos. In the FAQ
> they express a really strange opinion about this: 'The live streaming
> media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on
> Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a
> legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux.' An online petition
> has been set up to create pressure to convince the EU council to change
> its service to one that is platform independent." (slashdot)
>
> http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody	
>
> You are free to sign the petition.
>
>
>   
signed and forwarded to following lists:
senioren.linux (BE)
chatfactory.net(BE)
centos.org(INT)

send for publication to
linuxinfo.be (BE)
jenp.net (NL)


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