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Question to Mac users

  • 13-06-2006 7:29pm
    #1
    NeVeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,360 ✭✭✭


    Hi.

    Just wondering can MAC user open WMV files?

    Also can you open Real Media files.?

    the WMV is more important to me at the moment.

    So if anyone can help me that would be great.

    thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,946 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    media player for mac should do it, failing that try VLC.


  • #3
    Cool Mo D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭Cool Mo D


    Microsoft have discontinued Media Player for the Mac, to play WMV you can download the Flip4Mac plugin for quicktime.

    There is a version of Realplayer for Mac - download it from Real's website. VLC player can handle a huge load of media types too.


  • #4
    NeVeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,360 ✭✭✭NeVeR


    the reason i was asking ,,, and i should have put this in the 1st post is I'm making videos using camtasia and i want to save the file so both mac and windows users can use it.

    From what i heard both can play AVI. but the files are really big. WMV are alot smaller so i was hoping they worked on mac as well.

    thanks for the info guys.


  • #5
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,946 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Microsoft have discontinued Media Player for the Mac

    Yes they have, as well as IE for mac. However you can still download and use them!

    Word of warning NeVer, AVI is a generic extension (Audio Video Interleave) means prettymuch any format, RAW, MPG, MPEG2, DIVX XVid even WMV. Although one should really use a .wmv or .mpg extension somtimes people font bother!

    For the sake of quality and compatibilty, id stick with the AVI file that the camera is producing.


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