RealNetworks to support WMV on Linux

At LinuxWorld yesterday, RealNetworks and Novell announced a new partnership intended to bring improved multimedia support to the Linux desktop. The next version of RealPlayer for Linux will include codecs for Microsoft’s Windows Media format in addition to the multitude of currently supported formats. Due for release later this year, the upcoming version of RealPlayer will provide out-of-the-box support for the most common streaming video formats.

If it can play all WMV’s out there, then I will probably [not happy about it] jump on and give it a download. I still come across many WMV’s that do not function in Linux despite having all the codecs. This is also humourous in a way though, since Novell doesn’t even deliver an OS that supports WMV’s right off the bat…