<p>Does anybody know of a good media framework for Flex?<br/>
I'd like to be able to create apps that can play not only those formats that the Flex framework provides support for, but other formats as well (like wav, wma, ogg and other...).</p>

<p><strong>EDIT 13.10.2008.:</strong> It was recently pointed out to me in the answers section that I should perhaps rephrase the question, so here goes: What I'm really looking for is a way to play various media formats in a Flex/Air app. Onekidney posted a nice answer about Ogg/Vorbis. Does anybody know of a way to play other media formats? Never mind about the portability to different platforms now. Portability would be nice, but if I can't get it, I can live without it :-).<br/>
Thanks for the answers!</p>

is there a reason you're trying to put a
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beyond validation issues, allowing arbitrary tags (which are not properly encoded as above) to display can be a huge security issue. it's paramount to make sure any user supplied input has been properly sanitized before it is displayed.