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Windows Media Player

wowser

wowser

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Jan 25, 2004
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Hi. I've only had my mac a moth opr so but am already starting to fing Windows Media Player to be almost unusable. Videos take forever to buffer and i can't even seem to fast forward along the video etc etc. Therefore, is there any other player that will play the WMV format, and does a better job than WMP?
 
wowser said:
Hi. I've only had my mac a moth opr so but am already starting to fing Windows Media Player to be almost unusable. Videos take forever to buffer and i can't even seem to fast forward along the video etc etc. Therefore, is there any other player that will play the WMV format, and does a better job than WMP?
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VLC .7 does a fairly decent job with WMV and ASF, although fast forwarding gives a weird "inverted" color for a few frames and then reverts to normal. Far more usable than WMP.

realityisterror said:
i don't think you will be able to find anything that will play them for you...
microsoft is just stupid like that. better get used to it.

reality
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fortunately your reality doesn't seem to coincide with mine.
 
Heb1228 said:
What is VLC .7 ? initials don't help if i don't already know what program you're talking about
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VLC stands for VideoLanClient......but if your searching for it at VersionTracker or Macupdate search for VLC. You don't really see it as VideoLanClient.
 
briankonar said:
VLC .7 does a fairly decent job with WMV and ASF, although fast forwarding gives a weird "inverted" color for a few frames and then reverts to normal. Far more usable than WMP.
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i stand corrected. that's why it's always better to stick in that "think" :p

reality
 
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...mplayer also does the job...I prefer it to VLC, but between the two, there is nary a file they cannot handle...
 
yeah - be nice if pro came with all apples, rather than offering what even windows users ger for free


as for this vlc player, i can't get it to work. i paste a url into the player and it won't play. clicking on a wmv link just opens a blank window
 
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