 |
 |
Playing Windows Media (.asf) files in QT
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Status:
Offline
|
|
I have a Windows Media Player file (.asf) that I'd like to play on my computer, however, frankly, Windows Player is terrible and is very hard to control, stop, etc. Is there a way that I can open the file in QuickTime 4 (Pro) or some way that I can covert it so that I am able to open it? Thanks...
|
spike[at]avenirex[dot]com | Avenirex
IM - Avenirx | ICQ - 3932806
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ssviland
|
|
In addition to just playing .asf files, is there a way, outside of using WMP to receive streaming media intended for WMP on a Mac? I have found the latest WMP for Mac to be even worse than the Windows version, and it wouldn't work with Netscape 4.7x. I had to quit my browser of choice, open Exploder, and suffer through a terrible release of WMP. Its just not worth it, even though its coming from a friend's site. (I know - tell my friend to use Quicktime. I've done that and he's given me the old, "I'll send this to my server guys at corporate HQ", runaround.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Inside your computer!!!!
Status:
Offline
|
|
the "asf" format is owned by Microsoft. They would be the only ones able to make such a "codec" for quicktime, and they would never do that. sorry :-\
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jake
|
|
It would really make more sense for Microsoft to just drop the mac port of WMP and just write an asf codec for QT player. Jobs would give it mad plugs at a MW keynote, mac users would have access to more files, and microsoft could claim that more users were using their format than before. As it stands now there is just a clunky piece of crap software that very few people use unless they absolutely HAVE to.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MultimediaMatt
|
|
Let's get a couple things straight here.
ASF stands for Advanced Streaming Format, and it's just that, a file format, NOT a codec. Just like Quicktime isn't a codec, but a 'wrapper' of different codecs and related technologies.
Most (and I'm talking a very large majority) of asf video streams are implemented with Microsoft's MPEG-4 v3 codec. This is where the trouble lies. The only mpeg-4 decoder available for MacOS presently is WMP....
With Windows Media 7, Microsoft has even gone as far as supporting a non-proprietary ISO MPEG-4 version 1 standard from which other devices and clients can receive and decode the video. I find it disappointing that Apple has made no progress or even made their plans public with regard to MPEG-4.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Royal Oaks, CA, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
not to mention that the MPEG-4 standard is based on QuickTime.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Multimediamatt
|
|
No it isn't. The file format is based on QT4, which really doesn't mean much....
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top