On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Bob Hartmann wrote: > Not a question, more a point of conversation-- Of course there are sites > that are simply so ignorant as to offer .wm* as the only way.. we know > what to do with that, right? Use Windows or don't bother. I haven't used it myself, but I've been told that MPlayer can play just about any video format (and bypass most DRM features). I guess it uses some codecs to deal with WMV and other tricky formats: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html Also, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMV WMV files are played by players such as MPlayer or Windows Media Player, the latter being only available for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh systems. Many third-party players exist for various platforms such as Linux that use the FFmpeg implementation of the WMV codecs. Mike