media help

[sirune]

i recently downloaded this cartoon..but it won't play on quicktime or vlc..
the error in vlc reads:
main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `WMV3'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
so..any suggestions?

 

[trpnmonkey41]

windows media player

 

[sirune]

haha..forgot about that..
everytime i use the installer for windows media player, for some inexplicable reason, the installer crashes.
sheesh..this is one thing after another,
and all i wanted to do was watch cowboy bebop

 

[fearlessfreap24]

M Player OSX

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16623

i have has some luck playing wmv's with it but it doesnt always work.

 

[sirune]

..not working..
i can hear stuff..but the mplayer thingy that pops out does not respond

 

[schweb]

http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

 

[Aptmunich]

sometimes files in the wmv3 format contain drm. You can hear the audio in Mplayer, but in windows media player it'll just take you to a microsoft drm website with an authorisation error.

 

[sirune]

grrr...filp4mac doesn't work either..

sometimes files in the wmv3 format contain drm. You can hear the audio in Mplayer, but in windows media player it'll just take you to a microsoft drm website with an authorisation error.

so what you're saying here there is no way that i can play the file?

 

[Aptmunich]

I'm saying it depends on the file - if it's a file that the author has equipped with digital rights management, you can't play it without being authorized to do so (i.e. having paid for it), regardless of whether you're using a pc or mac.
Lots of people seem to share such files unknowingly on peer-to-peer networks (I've been told )...