Playing Video Files

[Bobbytoad]

Ok a Mac noobie question.

How do I play video files i've accumulated over the ages (while being a FORMER PC user on my new iMac), I'm surprised to see how few/none I can play, whereas Windows Media Player for all its faults used to play anything I threw at it?

I'm struggling with .WMV and .MTS files from my camcorder for starters

HELP

 

[xpipe]

Here are some ideas for starters: you can use VLC, a popular media player which handles many formats. Movist is another that many like. You could also install Flip4Mac which allows you to view .wmv files in QuickTime.

 

[Bobbytoad]

Thanks for the tips!

 

[MacHamster68]

and there is a wm player for mac

but here are all you might need

http://en.softonic.com/s/wmv-player:mac

but i would try to get a converter and convert all these wmv files and others you got into avi's, just a better format and saves changing players for every file you want to play, at least i prefer to
have all video files i got on my computer in one format instead of having to think about " which player do i need for ....and which player is best for ...." because for example in vlc player you can change between 4:3 and 16:9 and 16:10 too
here a wmv to avi concverter :
http://www.applemacvideo.com/howtoconvert/wmvmac/wmv-to-avi-mac.html

 

[pcfarrar]

http://perian.org/ adds support for most codecs into quicktime.

 

[Rodus]

Seconded for Perian, for a new user it's the easiest way to go as it'll give Quicktime far more capabilities.