Being a plug-in, it offers an added advantage - I can now catalog and view wmv files in iView MultiMedia Pro, the program I use to catalog photos (and now movies!). I’ve tried Flip4Mac WMV Player with QuickTime Player and it’s works fine. flip4mac’s solution has so far worked precisely as advertised.
Every other player (most egregiously Windows Media Player & RealPlayer) has to buffer files that are local, and stutters and barfs if you want to do something as simple as pause (and you can forget about jumping to a particular spot or live scrolling!). Of all the media players I’ve tryed (including all those you mentioned) quicktime player is the only decent one. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.ģ Responses to 'How to play Windows Media files on a Mac' You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 On Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 at 8:36 am and is filed under Apple, Geeky, Video. This is the player I use most often for all non quicktime formats, because I like the UI better than the others, it seems to perform better, and the visual quality is very nice (video generally looks better from mplayer than from Windows Media Player - perhaps due to better filtering and scaling?) Like vlc it plays just about every format well, and also does some fancy filtering and scaling.
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Flip4Mac - I haven’t tried this commercial option ($9), but these folk have apparently licensed the windows media codecs and written them as QuickTime codecs so that you can install them and then simply play back Windows Media files inside of QuickTime Player.Does not support playback of nearly as many formats as Windows Media Player for Windows.
Plays Windows Media audio and video ok, streaming and files. Microsoft’s Windows Media Player 9 for Mac Os X - straight from the horses mouth.There are many ways to play Windows Media files on computers running Apple’s OS X:
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