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Old 03-19-2006, 03:09 PM
I am on a Intel iMac and I was wondering if there was a program out there that lets you play like video files encoded in .wmv? I don't think there is one out there but maybe I am wrong.
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Old 03-19-2006, 04:25 PM
try VLC player... hang on i'll pull up the link

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

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Old 03-20-2006, 12:05 AM
You could also try Flip4Mac WMV, which lets you run almost, if not all the files Windows Media Player can run (including streamed files on the 'net) on Quicktime.

http://www.flip4mac.com/
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Old 03-20-2006, 01:36 PM
there is a free download of MS WMP for mac
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Old 03-20-2006, 06:16 PM
Thanks for your guy's help!

I didn't think that stuff existed.
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Old 03-20-2006, 10:49 PM
Does VLC play Xvid also? or do you need a codec first?
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Does VLC play Xvid also? or do you need a codec first?
i believe it does....i havent found a file that vlc cant play
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Old 03-21-2006, 02:19 PM
yeah basically if it's a video file vlc will play it.
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Old 03-22-2006, 08:06 AM
yeah, VLC is an amazing bit of software.
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Old 05-25-2006, 07:38 PM
VLC doesn't play most wmv files... at least the current nightly build for intel doesn't.
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Old 05-25-2006, 08:27 PM
then flip4mac is good
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flip4mac doesn't have an intel release yet either...
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