Re:is this Microsoft only? (Score 1)

I have been able to view videos on Linux using Xine by taking the video path (eg. "/video/showbiz/2005/06/22/nat.top.movie.quotes.af fl"), prepending "http://www.cnn.com", and appending "/video.ws.asx".

For example:

bash$ xine http://www.cnn.com/video/showbiz/2005/06/22/nat.to p.movie.quotes.affl/video.ws.asx

Strangely, this does not work with MPlayer. When I execute the same command line, but substitute "mplayer" in place of "xine", I get an error stating that "avisynth.dll" cannot be loaded. This error is misleading, because avisynth.dll is certainly not necessary in order to play these video files. The file avisynth.dll does not exist anywhere on my WinXP system, but the video still play fine. In addition, Xine is playing it fine without that DLL.