Making Music with FOSS

[sdavmor]

On 04/23/2011 01:16 PM, 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.
>
> Web-cast:
> http://opensource.com/business/11/4/today-making-music-foss-webcast-2-pm-est
>
> Webcast Playback:
> https://jboss.webex.com/ec0605lc/eventcenter/recording/recordAction.do?theAction=poprecord&actname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.do&apiname=lsr.php&renewticket=0&renewticket=0&actappname=ec0605lc&entappname=url0107lc&needFilter=false&&isurlact=true&entactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.do&rID=38196012&rKey=c2223d52c482e824&recordID=38196012&rnd=8047439081&siteurl=jboss&SP=EC&AT=pb&format=short
> <https://jboss.webex.com/ec0605lc/eventcenter/recording/recordAction.do?theAction=poprecord&actname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.do&apiname=lsr.php&renewticket=0&renewticket=0&actappname=ec0605lc&entappname=url0107lc&needFilter=false&&isurlact=true&entactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.do&rID=38196012&rKey=c2223d52c482e824&recordID=38196012&rnd=8047439081&siteurl=jboss&SP=EC&AT=pb&format=short>
>
> WebEx Player: http://www.webex.com/play-webex-recording.html

Well done! I have a lot of things to do today. I shall add it to the
end of my list.
-- 
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