| 24 Feb 2006 02:18 am |
JFace Guest | Well, for those of you who were talking about .mkv a few months back, I have one and it sure isn’t working. I haven’t tried the VirtualDub thing cause I don’t have a PC and I don’t plan on getting one anytime soon. But yeah, I tried that Japanese Program, Mplayer, changing the end to ./stream.dump .wmv instead of .mkv (and other various .endings) and nothin’s workin. I guess it’s just one of those super Anti-Mac things. Fortunately the guys who made the movie are gonna re-release it and all the future episodes (of a new series) in XviD/mp3. Whatever.
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| 24 Feb 2006 04:31 am |
Finglish Guest | Okay, the answer to all this is so stupidly simple that I’m kicking myself.
I’ve got the flip4mac wmv codec and several WMV3 files in .avi and .mpg formats. Now they all work in Quicktime beautifully. What did I do?
Simple. CHANGE THE EXTENSION TO .wmv AND THEY WILL PLAY!!!! Seriously, it’s that easy. This way you won’t be needing to install WMP 9 either.
Hope that helps.
Note: This was done on a G3 iBook with OSX.3.9 so this should work on pretty much everything else!
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| 01 Mar 2006 04:40 am |
mowmowmow Guest | I tried everything on this tread, still can’t get wmv3 to work (im on a MacMini OSX 10.3.9)
flip4mac now tells me it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048)
any help?
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| 05 Mar 2006 08:42 pm |
me pbG4 osx.4 Guest | it appears to me that it seems to be quite usefull to know how the files were coded... i have no problem with avi/mpg... but wmv3s.
i used the newest qt update + flip4mac freeware component and neither this nore VCL wouldl play this one video with the .wmv extension. the websites (of f4m as well as vcl) tell that there is no support for wmv3 files. (wmv1/2 ones are exepted by both f4m and vcl).
now if i got some of you right, with some files (i suggest those that are coded in wmv1/2) getting things to run is easily solved by renaming the files or do those other tricks you folks talked about.
does anybody know a prog for mac to analyse files? (for finding out wheather it is a compatibility or simply a renaming issue)
thx
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| 09 Mar 2006 05:37 am |
Christian Marcoux Guest | Hi guys, first time I post something in here, but I think you might like this. I read almost all the posts...from 2004 till today, and I tried just about all the players available, downloaded some codex, never worked, except one thing that I got from a post on 10 Apr 2005 09:19 pm from GUEST1234, which said:
I just renamed the file to asf, and played it with winows media player for mac os x, worked fine
:P
I tried that and I can confirm, it worked for me... and that is a much easier solution than what I read in most of the posts... try it and see, hope it works for you
Chris
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| 09 Mar 2006 09:54 am |
davidlaska Guest | HOW BAD CAN IT GET? I download a trailer movie from the official apple site and it was encoded by apple and it would not play on a apple and apples official quicktime pro, and the errro message said there is no compatable codec available at apple quicktime downloads..
But it plays fine on a pc with quicktime!!!!
Just as things were getting good....
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| 13 Apr 2006 09:01 pm |
J G Guest | you know I have been working on this for a few weeks now and I have to say that their is a way to get it to work... but it’s a pain in the ass and it leads me to believe there is a better way...
I have vlc mplayer quicktime and well i have installed so many things and moved so many files i’m not sure how or where anything is anymore but... these are my results
Quicktime- Perfect video but no sound
Mplayer- Perfect sound but no video and sound crashes after about 30-50 secs
Vlc- Perfect sound but no video and an error at opening
Now this is what confused me. Everone keeps say “there is no way” but if I run quicktime with vlc and sync them ***poof*** I am watching an avi with wmv3... now how can you tell me that if one program can do one or the other that you can’t somehow ghetto rig a program to just do both...
I know almost nothing about programing and such except from what I have discovered from screwing around on my own...
If you would like to test the video files I am using it is any file off http://kaa.animeconnection.net/torrentpage/
please let me know what is going on because I would have to say I think it’s a lie that mac’s can’t play these files...
thank you for your time
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| 16 Apr 2006 06:44 am |
father Guest | hi thank u for the player
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| 26 Apr 2006 07:23 am |
bad guest Guest | just read most of the forum on the subject and thought I would add my experience to the list. I have been working with video for about 5 years now and OS X has got a lot going for it now. WMV files can still be a night mare though, I noticed that one person was playing video in quicktime 9with flip4mac) and Audio in VLC if you have QT pro you can export the audio from VLC using the wizard export options and just add the audio to the QT file and watch together  if you have the paid version of Flip for mac you can save the file as something else. As mentioned many time before you just cant trust the “container” wmv, AVI, Mov and even mpg I have come across lots of these that have simply either been named wrong by people who think all video is an mpeg or an AVI LOL or have used the container to put in a very wierd codec combination. 9 times out of 10 quicktime WILL tell you what is in the file on a get info, I really think it sucks that Microsoft doesnt even let you reencode their WMV3 without paying them  I have no wish to encode to the format, but would like to sometimes change it to something else (so I did pay for F4M just so I can do this) sigh. I know of NO other codec that stops you from reencoding it if you have and encoder that can play the file. So YES you can bash Microsft for THAT!
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| 08 May 2006 08:30 pm |
makker Guest | well folks
i have been through all the forums and message boards and the answer to the question wether or not wmv3 file are playable under mac os x is almost always NO!
there are different suggestions on how to hack the problem, but the problem is that in most cases mac os x doesn’t recognize the file for what it is!?!!
i recently downloaded a wmv3 from the Net but mac os x kept telling me it was an mpeg file. vlc player, win mplayer, qt .... nobody could open it and i kept getting the old error message (-2048) or format not supported ..... and flip4mac didn’t do it’s job, man i was getting tired of this.
so here’s what you need
- qt player latest version 7.0.4 (req. os x 10.3.9)
- flip4mac latest version 2.0.2.10
- vlc player (as a diagnostic tool)
1. try opening your non-playable file in vlc player and get the errror message as usual
2. click “open messages window” and have a look at the log. find a string in red that says “Main Error” in red and find your actual codec (in my case .WMV)
3. close vlc - don’t need it anymore
4. open your video file with the Inspector (cmd + i) and got to the file name & extension
5. change the extension to .wmv and confirm - close inspector window
6. right click the video file and choose “open with” - you should find the option “wmv player there ....take it.
7. qt should now open the file without hesitation and play normally
8. find out that your movie is actually some home porn shot by the guy from across the street and decide that you don’t actually need this f********* file
so done on an iBook 14' with mac os x 10.3.9 - it goes to show that all computers are stupid even macs although they are not as stupid as pc’s ...viva la mela!
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| 12 May 2006 04:08 pm |
nappyhair Guest | http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=915D874D-D747-4180-A400-5F06B1B5E559&displaylang=en
this saved my life. wmv files can play in qt awesome. on mac. yesssss.
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| 12 May 2006 04:10 pm |
nappyhair Guest | mowmowmow wrote:
I tried everything on this tread, still can’t get wmv3 to work (im on a MacMini OSX 10.3.9)
flip4mac now tells me it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048)
any help?
yea restart your computer then try it again. maybe that will work.
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| 23 May 2006 02:02 pm |
Almightyrobot Guest | It seems that people mix up the wmv3 with the wmv.
wmv shouldn’t be any problem(atleast i dont have any), but it is the wmv3 that is the problem. some of the solutions i’ve seen here seems to be for the wmv codec.
you should check in vlc what codec the file uses. press [command + i-key] when you have opened your file in vlc. Then check “stream 0” which is video and youll see if its wmv3 or what ever it is.
i want help too!!
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| 07 Jun 2006 03:02 am |
Zan B. Guest | Hello. I am running an iMac G5 (OS X.4.6). Most times when you run into an WMV3 codec, simply change the suffix to 'wmv' instead of 'avi' or 'mpg/mpeg'. Windows media already has certain packages to recognize certain codecs even when the suffix is changed. I’ve tried it with every movie I have gotten an error with, and this method works fine.
-Z
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| 20 Jun 2006 03:52 pm |
Kendrick Guest | rename the file with a .wmv ending (click on the icon, press enter, then go to the end, delete .mpg or .avi or whatever, and replace it with .wmv)
eg. from Movie.mpg
to Movie.wmv
Voila! now you can play it in quicktime/wmp etc
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| 29 Aug 2006 07:51 pm |
itjustworked Guest | I got my videos to work that wouldnt work in VLC. All I did was follow the link that someone posted earlier.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedi
then I downloaded flip4mac program.
after that I just changed the video file from .mpeg to .wmv and it prompted me do I want to use .wmv or .mpeg. Pick .wmv and I waited a little while and lo and behold the file played. I think it will work for .avi too. The file plays on quicktime.
hope that helps
cheers
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| 30 Oct 2006 09:59 pm |
Savonnn Guest | Windows media 9 might get it to work, but be warned that it latches itself on to the hard drive so tightly you need software to uninstall it. Windows claims some bullshit about “integration” with the OS, but it’s just another microsoft invasion scheme...
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| 10 Nov 2006 02:22 am |
plug Guest | Have you guys tried flip for mac?
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| 01 Dec 2006 08:41 pm |
frakacyon Guest | an appliction called ISQUINT [mac only] will conert wmv3 files into mp4 [ipod/psp]. these files do take a while to convert though. have to say, ISQUINT is the dogs bollocks for psp videos
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| 02 Dec 2006 10:36 pm |
honestlyAbe Guest | makker wrote:
well folks
i have been through all the forums and message boards and the answer to the question wether or not wmv3 file are playable under mac os x is almost always NO!
there are different suggestions on how to hack the problem, but the problem is that in most cases mac os x doesn’t recognize the file for what it is!?!!
i recently downloaded a wmv3 from the Net but mac os x kept telling me it was an mpeg file. vlc player, win mplayer, qt .... nobody could open it and i kept getting the old error message (-2048) or format not supported ..... and flip4mac didn’t do it’s job, man i was getting tired of this.
so here’s what you need
- qt player latest version 7.0.4 (req. os x 10.3.9)
- flip4mac latest version 2.0.2.10
- vlc player (as a diagnostic tool)
1. try opening your non-playable file in vlc player and get the errror message as usual
2. click “open messages window” and have a look at the log. find a string in red that says “Main Error” in red and find your actual codec (in my case .WMV)
3. close vlc - don’t need it anymore
4. open your video file with the Inspector (cmd + i) and got to the file name & extension
5. change the extension to .wmv and confirm - close inspector window
6. right click the video file and choose “open with” - you should find the option “wmv player there ....take it.
7. qt should now open the file without hesitation and play normally
8. find out that your movie is actually some home porn shot by the guy from across the street and decide that you don’t actually need this f********* file
so done on an iBook 14' with mac os x 10.3.9 - it goes to show that all computers are stupid even macs although they are not as stupid as pc’s ...viva la mela!
what is the “Inspector”?
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