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I think when it comes codecs, the Mac has a long way to go!! Oh well...
We all have our perspectives, but my experience is different. Two points:
The first--H.264 is part of the MPEG-4 standard. The older MPEG-4 standard and the newer H.264 part are standard codecs in the QuickTime frameworks. There are non-standard implementations like h264 and x264 that may require additional codecs. Windows Media is a proprietary Microsoft format. The Redmond Monopoly allows
Flip4Mac to support up to Windows Media 9. It does not support Windows Media 10 or Windows Media 10. Microsoft has not given
Flip4Mac access to any version of its DRM for Windows Media.
The second--having said that, I rarely encounter an audio-visual file that my installations of QuickTime codecs can't handle. Following Microsoft's blessing of
Flip4Mac, WMV 10 and WMV 11 seem to have lost traction. The Windows side of things seems to have settled on WMV 9 which
Flip4Mac handles with aplumb. As for files using one of the H.264 codec clones, I have yet to find one that I can't play.
If you can open a file in
VLC, then you can use it to determine the formats of its audio and video tracks. This information will help you to locate the appropriate codecs required to handle them. If you can't find them, then I am certain that someone here can help you.