{"id":88,"date":"2007-03-01T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/03\/01\/british-pathe\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:12:44","slug":"british-pathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/03\/01\/british-pathe\/","title":{"rendered":"British Path\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ages ago British Path\u00e9 opened up its archive of newsreel footage. As for the video format, it is all in WMV and QuickTime.  So the stills are accessible, but the videos require proprietary codecs.  Sue reminded me about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluendo.com\/press\/releases\/PR-2007-01.html\">new Fluendo WMV codecs<\/a>, so we had a go with the free preview footage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately while the sound worked fine, there was no video at all using Totem.  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