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Getting a MacBook Pro very soon. Need advice.
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<blockquote data-quote="EndlessMac" data-source="post: 982786" data-attributes="member: 140470"><p><a href="http://www.videolan.org/" target="_blank">VideoLan</a> will play most video and audio formats. There are other players but I like VideoLan. It's available for both Mac and Windows. A lot of third party media players will have codecs already installed on the players themselves so there is no need to installed them onto your computer unless you have to.</p><p></p><p>Windows Media Player and Apple's Quicktime player don't have these codecs pre-installed probably for legal reasons but if you use a third party player like VideoLan then you should be good. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Are you going to still be using them for Windows also or can you erase them? If you can then just format the two hard drives in Mac's Disk Utility application so that they are Mac formats. That would be the best way if you want full compatibility with Mac.</p><p></p><p>Hard drives are not solely made for either Mac or Windows. You just have to format them if you want to use them on either system but like I said you will lose all the data you already have on them if you format them. If you want to use the hard drives for both Mac and Windows then that's a different issue especially if you want to use NTFS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EndlessMac, post: 982786, member: 140470"] [URL="http://www.videolan.org/"]VideoLan[/URL] will play most video and audio formats. There are other players but I like VideoLan. It's available for both Mac and Windows. A lot of third party media players will have codecs already installed on the players themselves so there is no need to installed them onto your computer unless you have to. Windows Media Player and Apple's Quicktime player don't have these codecs pre-installed probably for legal reasons but if you use a third party player like VideoLan then you should be good. Are you going to still be using them for Windows also or can you erase them? If you can then just format the two hard drives in Mac's Disk Utility application so that they are Mac formats. That would be the best way if you want full compatibility with Mac. Hard drives are not solely made for either Mac or Windows. You just have to format them if you want to use them on either system but like I said you will lose all the data you already have on them if you format them. If you want to use the hard drives for both Mac and Windows then that's a different issue especially if you want to use NTFS. [/QUOTE]
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