please would all open source goons please stop whinging...

if you look at the requirements set down by the bbc trust for the iplayer, they have to make it available for all popular os platforms. This means that versions for linux and mac os are on the way, most likely using a different format to the sucky wmv.

The BBC started using wmv years ago and have a running conrtact and experience to use it on the most widely used os out there (p.s. sorry linux, but thats windows)

I run both windows xp and a ubuntu distro on my desktop and will no doubt continue to only run media on the xp side of things, it's just so much easier.