A little while ago I did a video for Linux.com about how the New York Times kept Linux users from watching many of their (Flash) videos. That video was picked up by Slashdot, Digg, and a bunch of other tech news sites and got more viewers than I suspect most stories on the NYT site get. Because of my video (and its wide exposure), the NYT has told its video delivery contractor, The Feed Room, to remove the anti-Linux barriers.

But down here in the Florida hinterlands, the (NYT-owned) Sarasota Herald-Tribune doesn’t even run Flash videos. They use .wmv instead. And they take even more aggressive anti-Linux measures than their company’s Mothership paper. Still, smart Linux users who have mplayer or other video players installed, along with the appropriate codecs, can watch H-T videos if they really want to. The video below (hosted by YouTube) tells you how. Whether watching these little videos delivered through the H-T site but made by SNN News 6 is worth this much trouble is a question you’ll have to answer for yourself….

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