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riddim
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Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:53 am Post subject:
Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The
webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up
Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on
my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid format error message
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
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Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:
Re: Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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riddim <riddim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Hi riddim,
| Quote: | I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The
webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up
Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on
my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid format error message
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It might be because the codecs used to create them are not supported on
WMP9... The Mac version only supports a limited set of codecs and will
also choke if the file uses DRM7.
You can still try opening the file in VLC or MPlayer X. These apps might
be able to play some of the unsupported formats.
Corentin
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riddim
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Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:21 am Post subject:
Re: Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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Thanks Corentin, for that info
As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe
that's not supported.
As far as other movie players that would work, I was using VLC successfully
when the movie-maker was posting his movies in AVI format. Then he switched
to .wmv (claiming better compression ratio), and now VLC will not open them,
which is what made me try WMV for Mac. Since that won't work either, I'll be
looking for a player that will. You mentioned MPlayer X, which I haven't
heard of, but will find and try. Do you know of any other players that might
work?
It's certainly a shame there's so many complicated formats to play a simple
movie. I sure wish there was just one or two universal formats/players out
there. Sheesh!
"Corentin Cras-Méneur" wrote:
| Quote: | riddim <riddim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Hi riddim,
I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The
webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up
Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on
my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid format error message
It might be because the codecs used to create them are not supported on
WMP9... The Mac version only supports a limited set of codecs and will
also choke if the file uses DRM7.
You can still try opening the file in VLC or MPlayer X. These apps might
be able to play some of the unsupported formats.
Corentin
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http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
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Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject:
Re: Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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riddim <riddim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks Corentin, for that info
As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe
that's not supported.
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That's QUITE different. You mean DivX in wmv containers ?? Ouch... that
won;t play in WMP.
| Quote: | As far as other movie players that would work, I was using VLC successfully
when the movie-maker was posting his movies in AVI format. Then he switched
to .wmv (claiming better compression ratio),
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Weird... I thought most fo the compression ration was acheived through
the codec itself (which remains the same in this case).
If he/she wants good compression ration, I would suggest H264...
| Quote: | and now VLC will not open them,
which is what made me try WMV for Mac. Since that won't work either, I'll be
looking for a player that will. You mentioned MPlayer X, which I haven't
heard of, but will find and try. Do you know of any other players that might
work?
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I don;t see any player that would play these files. You could try
MPlayer X but it should be the samedb as VLC.
You could try to transcode the file to another format through an app
like D-Vision or FFMpegX. They sometimes manage to convert formats that
noa player on the Mac can read.
| Quote: | It's certainly a shame there's so many complicated formats to play a simple
movie. I sure wish there was just one or two universal formats/players out
there. Sheesh!
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:-(
Corentin
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t
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Fri May 06, 2005 8:30 am Post subject:
RE: Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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"riddim" wrote:
| Quote: | I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The
webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up
Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on
my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid format error message |
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t
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Fri May 06, 2005 8:30 am Post subject:
Re: Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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"Corentin Cras-Méneur" wrote:
| Quote: | riddim <riddim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Thanks Corentin, for that info
As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe
that's not supported.
That's QUITE different. You mean DivX in wmv containers ?? Ouch... that
won;t play in WMP.
As far as other movie players that would work, I was using VLC successfully
when the movie-maker was posting his movies in AVI format. Then he switched
to .wmv (claiming better compression ratio),
Weird... I thought most fo the compression ration was acheived through
the codec itself (which remains the same in this case).
If he/she wants good compression ration, I would suggest H264...
and now VLC will not open them,
which is what made me try WMV for Mac. Since that won't work either, I'll be
looking for a player that will. You mentioned MPlayer X, which I haven't
heard of, but will find and try. Do you know of any other players that might
work?
I don;t see any player that would play these files. You could try
MPlayer X but it should be the samedb as VLC.
You could try to transcode the file to another format through an app
like D-Vision or FFMpegX. They sometimes manage to convert formats that
noa player on the Mac can read.
It's certainly a shame there's so many complicated formats to play a simple
movie. I sure wish there was just one or two universal formats/players out
there. Sheesh!
:-(
Corentin
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t
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Fri May 06, 2005 8:30 am Post subject:
Re: Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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"Corentin Cras-Méneur" wrote:
| Quote: | riddim <riddim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Thanks Corentin, for that info
As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe
that's not supported.
That's QUITE different. You mean DivX in wmv containers ?? Ouch... that
won;t play in WMP.
As far as other movie players that would work, I was using VLC successfully
when the movie-maker was posting his movies in AVI format. Then he switched
to .wmv (claiming better compression ratio),
Weird... I thought most fo the compression ration was acheived through
the codec itself (which remains the same in this case).
If he/she wants good compression ration, I would suggest H264...
and now VLC will not open them,
which is what made me try WMV for Mac. Since that won't work either, I'll be
looking for a player that will. You mentioned MPlayer X, which I haven't
heard of, but will find and try. Do you know of any other players that might
work?
I don;t see any player that would play these files. You could try
MPlayer X but it should be the samedb as VLC.
You could try to transcode the file to another format through an app
like D-Vision or FFMpegX. They sometimes manage to convert formats that
noa player on the Mac can read.
It's certainly a shame there's so many complicated formats to play a simple
movie. I sure wish there was just one or two universal formats/players out
there. Sheesh!
:-(
Corentin
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http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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Biggus
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:36 am Post subject:
Re: Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files? |
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In article <082337C5-FB01-4566-8E3A-271AD60A4F9B@microsoft.com>,
"t" <abc@aol.com> wrote:
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"Corentin Cras-Méneur" wrote:
riddim <riddim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Thanks Corentin, for that info
As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe
that's not supported.
That's QUITE different. You mean DivX in wmv containers ?? Ouch... that
won;t play in WMP.
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It sure won't - but I found a fairly easy workaround to open Divx/wmv
files with regular QuickTime: just rename your files to end with suffix
..avi and then run them through the donationware utility
DivXWMAConverter.
<http://www.carrafix.com/DivXWMAConverter/>
This method works for me about 95% of the time and produces new .avi
files with audio converted to mp3 format.
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