[bad1550]

Is there a way to open up a .WMV video file in Mac. I received an email with that extention but would not open up?

Thanks,

Bob

[Faust]

VLC does that.

[ibook_steve]

And Flip4Mac - Digital Media Tools for the Mac.

Steve

[analogika]

You should install

Flip4Mac

Perian (available at Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime� components )

VLC

RealPlayer Free (don't worry, it's completely harmless on the Mac and utterly unable to crap all over your system as it does under Windows. It's really a very good citizen these days.)

Between those and the ones that are pre-installed, you should have every video format you'll come across on the web covered, except for DRM (copy-protected) Windows Media crap, for which there is currently no solution on the Mac other than to run it on Windows within a virtual machine such as Parallels.

[dustrho]

Not to hijack the thread, but I had a similar question regarding WMV files and I'm having a hard time installing Flip4Mac. Check out my thread below...

LINK

[Faloopa]

....and also install the K-Lite Codec pack. It allows you to open all the major kinds of video and audio media and automatically integrates with all the media players you are using.

Just do a web search for "K-Lite Codec" and download the free version.

[antoniola]

This is the list I've compiled for viewing video on the web:

http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
(Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported)

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

http://www.real.com/player

http://perian.org/

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...treamclip.html

In Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).

In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them).

[Jacke]

Originally Posted by Faloopa 

....and also install the K-Lite Codec pack.

Hello, and welcome to MacNN. As the name indicates, MacNN is a forum devoted to Apple's Macintosh computers and the associated operating system. The K-Lite codec pack, and 99% of all codec packs, are made for Windows. Please keep this in mind in your future posts.

[bad1550]

Thanks for all of your help.

I tried flip4mac and it worked great!

Bob

[Big Slick]

I've started using vlc and for the most part it seems acceptable. I've noticed however that certain AVI formatted vids play really choppy. The screen freezes (like a screenshot) while the time counter keeps going. Dunno if this is a problem due to the original source (ie recorded in low frame rate, etc) or some setting I'm missing on vlc. (Don't know why they chose a "caution orange" pylon as a desktop icon though)