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Playing .WMV on mac
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VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Best media player in the world, plays everything except the kitchen sink.
Best media player in the world, plays everything except the kitchen sink.
Better yet, use both. Flip4Mac and Perian for most stuff, VLC for those oddball formats that work with neither.
WMV with MS DRM? There is no player. Ask Microsoft for one, or ask your school to implement an open standard.
Sadly, the only option is quite expensive, but using vmware fusion or parallels, you can run windows inside osx to watch the videos.
and if you have an external HDD and wish to start an iTunes Movie Library like I do
(I keep music on Internal)
Quit iTunes, Re-open it while holding "Option" This will prompt to use existing Library, or create new one. If you create a new one on the external, you'll be brought to that empty library to start adding movies.
.wmv
.avi
.flv
these are some that don't work in iTunes -- to make it work, Convert them using third party apps like iSquint.
If you wish to return to music library, quit iTunes, re-open (while holding "option" )
This time select an existing library file >home folder>music>iTunes
I made alias's for my two libraries, and placed them in one folder for easy access.
(I keep music on Internal)
Quit iTunes, Re-open it while holding "Option" This will prompt to use existing Library, or create new one. If you create a new one on the external, you'll be brought to that empty library to start adding movies.
.wmv
.avi
.flv
these are some that don't work in iTunes -- to make it work, Convert them using third party apps like iSquint.
If you wish to return to music library, quit iTunes, re-open (while holding "option" )
This time select an existing library file >home folder>music>iTunes
I made alias's for my two libraries, and placed them in one folder for easy access.
Go to your scool and complain. There's no reason for a school to DRMify a lecture. That is just ridiculous.