10-21-2009, 05:11 PM

Hi so I just got a new macbook pro the other day and am having some trouble. My school has streaming lectures I need to access but they are in wmv format. I have downloaded both flip4mac and vlc but neither seem to work. Quicktime will either tell me that it cannot open urls that begin with "mms" or give me "osstatus error-19160". VLC media player gives me an error message saying your input can't be opened. The url begins with mms and ends with a .wmv. I don't want to have to use windows through bootcamp to stream the lectures if I can help it. To access the website and each individual video I need to enter in my username and password on the website and then into windows media player on a pc, I'm not sure if this makes any difference. I'm running snow leopard 10.6.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

-Syed

10-21-2009, 08:40 PM

Try the Mac version of Windows Media Player, if you can find it. Works for me. Same OS (10.6.1) but my computer's more than a year older.

10-21-2009, 09:40 PM

Thanks for the reply, I actually tried downloading that off apples website but some reason it doesn't work. The downloaded file when I open it is just a text document with jumbled letters and symbols so I'm not sure what's going on with that. If anyone knows where I can get a working edition of WMP for mac that would be great, thanks.

10-22-2009, 02:19 AM

WMP for Mac is outdated and no longer in development.

Try and download Perian and see if that helps out.