| 11 Sep 2005 02:26 pm |
Masamune Guest | NO MORE WMV3 MOVIES PLEASE, UNLESS YOU ARE ANTI MAC.
seriously what is so wrong about mp4 or just plain old mpeg2. all PC people give the same response, rather than help they say to get a PC. damn facists.
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| 17 Sep 2005 10:47 am |
elmimmo Guest | Nobody seems to be getting it
There is no way to play WMV3 *****INSIDE****** an AVI. That is not WMV3 inside a WMV or an ASF, etc.
WMP9 will NOT play AVIs whatsoever, only ASF, WM, WMA, WMP or WMV. Flip4Mac 1.0.1 will only play WMV3 when inside of any of those containers, NOT when in an AVI.
So stop suggesting things you have not tried or that you do not understand. You are just making the life of other more difficult when they end up thinking it is somehow thier fault that they cannot do what you can with the same tools (when in fact you cannot either).
Things such as WMV3Server ( http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/8128/ ) to convert the thing to ASF (damn easy and free), as dumping the stream with mplayer to another container format (which involves command-line, i.e. tricky), and THEN playing the resulting file WMP9 or Flip4Mac would work.
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| 22 Sep 2005 09:38 pm |
Groxx Guest | Well, everyone should enjoy this. Try following these instructions (you’ll need a PC though).
Download VirtualDub. Open your file.
Go to Video -> Compression, pick something different (like Divx (what I used)), and set your compression rate if it’s applicable (under configure in the compression section)
Go to File -> Save as AVI
Pop it into your Mac.
Enjoy.
I just did this, it worked absolutely flawlessly. Made a visibly-identical Divx copy, at approximately the same file size, and it plays in Quicktime and everything else without a hitch, sound and vid perfect.
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| 22 Sep 2005 09:40 pm |
Groxx Guest | Oh, by the way, the file I used was a WMV3-encoded AVI. I’m not sure how VirtualDub handles MKV, as I have none on my computer currently.
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| 02 Oct 2005 05:18 am |
Unerkannt Guest | We’re using powires “Compression Master” (http://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?products_id=2) - it can convert every movie into other codecs - wmv3, real, quickTime, ... - its expensive but it’s woth ...
My impressions of Microsofts Mediaplayer for Mac are very bad:
no multiple files (can only play one file - no playlist)
little gaps by playing wmv3-movies (no idea why, i use a 2x2,5 G5 with 2.5 MB RAM - but the same on a G4 iBook with only 512 RAM, maybe a problem in the codec)
it has the ugliest interface ever - ok - MacOS 10.4. provides 6 original Apple-Interfaces at the same, but from brushed metal to the old stiped-aqua - nothing is that bad as microsofts Media Player ...
Problems by jup within streaming files. wmv kann be saved as streaming file, or as progressiv for download. The same file as progressiv can be used normaly - use the timeline-slider an jump, some images dropped while seeking the keyframe and the movie plays. Trying this at a streaming-file it toks the same time to reach the new position as if you let play the movie normaly. I think that the player kann not jump in streaming-files and so it plays the movie in background (in singel speed) and if the new timestamp is reached - it play’s the movie with pictures ...
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| 09 Oct 2005 03:41 pm |
rooney Guest | What if it is a wmv3 movie embedded in a .mov file?
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| 14 Oct 2005 09:52 pm |
richard_ Guest | Flip4Mac WMV Player can play most Windows Media formats.
However, the best action to take when you come across Windows Media is to make a serious complaint to the person who encoded it, explaining the disadvantages of using Windows Media. Windows Media is just one of Microsoft’s many anti-competitive schemes, designed to force people to use Windows.
Lazy people should encode video in QuickTime, which can be played on both Mac OS and Windows without any problems.
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| 18 Oct 2005 10:59 pm |
illegal bob Guest | umm if they get sued and live in sweeden no good for microcrap... they just get to send nasty letters to them and threten to take them to court but never can (no DCMA there)
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| 20 Oct 2005 05:06 am |
rek Guest | I can only play .wmv files on windows media player for mac, but it’s all choppy, and I am trying to get a solution so there is no chopiness, is that even possible?
I have a iBook G4, which has more than enough ram to play movies and etc. I also tried quitting everything and it’s still choppy.
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| 29 Oct 2005 09:38 am |
Regular Rep: 0 Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 128 OFFLINE | On Linux, ASF (WMV), MKV or AVI files containing WMV3 codec can be played in mplayer and Xine, because the developer found a way to link to the Windows DLLs from their players.
Of course, this is only possible because Linux is running on the same CPUs like Windows, i.e. Little Endian INTEL compatible CPUs.
Mac’s are Big Endian machines with CPUs of their own, thats why linking to the DLLs won’t work. Nobody can change this, but Microsoft themselves, by releasing a newer version of WMP for the MAC, with WMV3 enabled.
But i guess its more likely that hell will freeze over than M$ releasing more software for the MACs ....
Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org
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| 01 Nov 2005 05:36 pm |
davidlaska Guest | Only older version of virtual dub can do the conversion, due to licensing, they are all pulled and the new version cannot convert or play wmwantever file. Microsoft is trying to get more popular than quicktime, hence the difficulty of viewing their files increases by time.
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| 02 Nov 2005 11:00 am |
nmrules1 nmrules1 Guest | some of you are right some are wrong let me tell you the turth about wmv3 files that come in a .asf .wmv .wma but the .wma files normaly are audio only but can be video. a wmv3 file is a wmv file encoded for windows media player 9 for pc. so anyone with anything lower wont be able to player and anyone with anything higher like widows media player 10 can play it. now on a mac if you have windows meia player 7 or 6 for mac os 9, 8, it wont play and if you have the windows media player microsoft first made for mac OS X witch was really just a carbon version of windows media player 7 for mac os 9, and 8. but if you got this adress http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx and download windows media player 9 for mac OS X the .wmv files you tired to play in VLC player that didnt work becuase it talked about how it cant play wmv3 files well windows media player 9 for mac OS X the newest version can play them if you get a file it cant play thwn that mens it has been encoded for windows media player 10 or is using a old codec that is pc only. and to install windows media player 9 in 10.2 you need to goto apple system preferences and click on software update and make sure your computer has the latest version of mac os 10.2 witch is 10.2.8 you also to goto http://homepage.mac.com/allume/.Public/StuffIt/For_MacOS_10.1-10.2/stuffit_std_802_x_install.dmg and download stuffit standard edition and install it once you do then goto http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/3/0f347443-f1ff-4830-9b20-65da2c6bf111/WindowsMediaInstaller.bin and download windows media player 9 then once it downloads it will or you will unpack the .bin then you can or it will unpack the .sitx but your web browser might do like mine did and already unpack the .bin delte it and just give you the .sitx file witch now will open and once it is done the Windows Media Installer that it places on the desktop or whereever your downloads goto you juct double click it and it will install windows media player 9 once you do what it says and there you can play them. coming soon like maybe todo goto http://www.macvideo.tk this website is one i am starting to tell people howto watch almost any video file any webstream download webstreams and encode video from 1 file format to another and rip dvds and get video into file cut and show you howto do some things and save as a mov or goto dvd studio pro and yes i will even show imovie and idvd and quicktime pro. peace
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| 03 Nov 2005 10:08 am |
davidlaska Guest | nmrules1
I understood in the end, one can,t play WMP files that are for version 10 MPlayer or older codecs. Thanks for your response.
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| 22 Nov 2005 01:51 am |
olly Guest | Well, I tried many of the fixes recommended in this thread (couldn’t use the linux ones or the ones that require a PC running virtualdub) and the only one that worked for my file (WMV3 embedded in AVI) was the Japanese conversion program.
But that works great. Thanks for the tip!
(Now if only I can get X264s to play...)
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| 22 Nov 2005 10:57 am |
davidlaska Guest | After everything is setup with all possible softwares (less emulation like VPC) you still cannot play files encoded with version 10 codec from microsoft which is showing up more and more.
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| 24 Nov 2005 10:15 am |
billBLOWS Guest | FUK M$.... i use my PC for wmv3’s and MS Access (for work) - i can’t WAIT for the day i can throw this POS away. i think i’ll go hit gates with another pie...
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| 27 Nov 2005 12:59 am |
Bandit27 Guest | Hi,
Windows Media player has been working fine for me until last week, Playing a few wmv files I have no problem. Suddenly last week, there is no audio on the files, and when I launch a movie I get the message from Windows media player 9 (Mac) that says :
“This file may not play correctly because it was compressed by using a codec that is not supported."
These files worked last week just fine and work on my mac mini just fine. Anyone have any suggestions? I did re-install WMP 9.
I am running an iMac 20” 1.8 OS X 10.4.3.
Thanks.
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| 30 Nov 2005 09:05 pm |
Lanaer Guest | Ok, I have an AVI file that uses WMV3 encoding. I know that no players on the Mac can play it (VLC just plays audio). I tried the mplayer -dumpstream trick, which gave me a slightly smaller file that no players could play (again, VLC just plays audio and complains about the WMV3 video, and WMP complains about an invalid file format).
Is there some sort of trick to mplayer -dumstream?
This is what I did:
mplayer -dumpstream movie.avi
mv stream.dump movie.wmv
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| 16 Dec 2005 12:49 pm |
OW Guest | Having same problem described by Bandit27 (Guest) (Win. Media Player 9 started complaining about not supported codec and the audio disappeared). I wonder whether my recent installation of DivX 6 has anything to do with it.
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| 16 Dec 2005 09:32 pm |
OW Guest | OOOO! I found how to fix the audio playback issue:
http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB13&Number=331298&page=15&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
(look for whoisvince’s post).
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