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mark34
Jul 10, 2008, 11:35 AM
I don't have enough time under the belt yet, but I think that getting rid of Flip4Mac and instead using VLC for WMV files may have cured my sporadic core shutdown problems.

I was at the point where wmv files were almost instantly stuttering. Yesterday I ran through about 10 short wmv files on vlc and not even a hiccup.

Can anyone else relate to this experience or want to try?



Eidorian
Jul 10, 2008, 11:36 AM
VLC is a lot less intensive then piping anything through a Quicktime plug-in.

Alan Taylor
Jul 10, 2008, 07:04 PM
Interesting if true. It seems that Flash and WMV are the Macs biggest weak points these days. Then again, just before I got my first Mac you couldn't even *play* WMV files on a Mac!

ScottFitz
Jul 12, 2008, 12:51 AM
Interesting if true. It seems that Flash and WMV are the Macs biggest weak points these days. Then again, just before I got my first Mac you couldn't even *play* WMV files on a Mac!

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GR33NIE
Jul 12, 2008, 06:25 AM
I used VLC before Flip4, still get some probs with VLC though when starting it up.

Sometimes it just seems to crash and I need to do a force quit ;)