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HD . WMV in VLC

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mix123

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Aug 8, 2007
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Hi, Im trying to watch an HD .wmv file. I tried it in quicktime and it was choppy at times. VLC gives me some kind of error...plays the video smooth but with no audio. Any ideas? I'm running at 2.4ghz Aluminum iMac with 1 gig ram...
 
I think the only way to play WMV-HD files is with QuickTime and Flip4Mac. Like you said, VLC doesn't play the audio. I have a 2.4ghz SR MBP with 2gb RAM and everything I tried to play in QT worked fine other than taking a few seconds to start up the video. But if anyone else knows other players for WMV-HD files I'd love to know as well.
 
I tried Mplayer and it's the same as VLC no sound but smooth picture, Quicktime has sound but choppy picture. It's 1080p if that matters. I tried it first off my external drive then my internal... the same on both
 
The problem is that WMV HD uses the Windows Media Audio 9 Professional codec for sound. This is supported by Flip4Mac but not VLC (in the features list I believe that it is named WMA 3) and Mplayer also doesn't support this codec, at least for the mac versions of these players. Note that WMV HD is a marketing term and what governs the video and audio streams are the Windows Media 9 series codecs.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
 
Any idea why quicktime would be choppy? I understand that vlc can't play the file correctly but why would quicktime be choppy?
 
mix did you find out why its being choppy i have a 2.4 core 2 duo with 4 gig on ram and i am using a wmv-hd through all the same crap you did and nothing works and its choppy on quicktime.....son of a beatch i wish there was a player that played these
 
not ideal

Not an ideal solutions but you can one to play these if you only have a mac is if youhappen to have an xbox360. The xbox can stream the wmvhd no problems. I do this all the time with 1080p wmv content
 
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