Making Music with FOSS

[Angel de Vicente]

Hi,

On 23/04/11 21:16, 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

I tried this, but no luck. The WebEx .arf Player got installed correctly 
under Wine, and it says "Network Recording Player Version 2.17.1", but 
when I try to open the file Making Music with FOSS.arf, it complains 
with "Unknown file format. You may update your Network Recording Player 
and try again." Anyone else got that? (I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and Wine 
1.2.2).

Cheers,
Ángel de Vicente
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