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Just ran across this on OSNews:
"Also, liquidat wrote us: "While I searched for information about Alsa support for Real/HelixPlayer I came across the HelixPlayer v3.0 project overview and found that there is a group working on this. This means that we will sooner or later get native (and legal) Windows Audio/Video support on Linux. Windows DRM though will not be supported on Linux but on "devices", whatever that may be.""

Source: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14369

To me this could like Novell will be will someday have support for Windows Media out of the box, through the Helix framework.

Hopefully they will have support for AMD64 WMV since it doesn't like the 32bit binaries. I also hope that they will be opensource and can work on any video player (not just crappy Real Player). This would mean Linux would have most every widely used codec out there and one more step to full Linux adoption from the majority.