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Help me play WMV on my Mac

#1 User is offline   jrb 

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Posted 17 February 2005 - 03:13 AM

I have a Power Mac G4 with OS 10.3.7, 1.5 GB SDRAM and Dual 1 GHz Processors. I have downloaded Windows Media Player 9 for OS X into my Applications folder and it will not work. Every time I try to stream or download a WMV file off a website, the browser freezes (I get the spinning color wheel). This happens with Netscape and Explorer. When I try to open Windows Media Player directly, its icon simply "bounces" in my dock and never fully opens. I always have to force quit the application. I have repeatedly deleted and reinstalled Windows Media Player only to get the same results each and every time.

Am I ever going to be able to watch WMV files on my Mac? What am I doing wrong? Every FAQ page or online forum I've gone to has told me to download Windows Media Player for Mac OSX which I've already done repeatedly with no success. Please help!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Posted 18 February 2005 - 12:21 PM

VLC comes in a Mac OS X version. The windows version plays most wmv files fine.
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Posted 07 April 2005 - 09:41 PM

I have VLC for OS X and It does play WMV REAL1 and QT files perfectly along with lots of third party formats, a great program. You can download It at macupdate.com
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 01:23 PM

Flip4Mac QT plugin will let you view WMV files on your Mac.

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Posted 22 November 2009 - 08:41 AM

hi
I used Video Converter for mac to convert VOB and WMV files for Mac. It is really a great tool that support HD video conversion also. So I recommend you Video Converter Mac for WMV on Mac.

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