Re: Watching .WMA Files on OS X?

[Santeh]

Hello All,

Recently I came across a few Windows Media (.wma) video files (one hockey and a few on the rubik's cube) that I would liked to have watched. However after downloading the videos my PowerPC tells me that there is no application available in OS X to view the files. Is this correct? If so is there any file that I can install that will allow me to watch these videos?

Thank you all!

Respectfully,

Sam

 

[killuminati]

This may be to obvious and you've already tried but there is Windows Media Player for Macs

 

[Santeh]

This may be to obvious and you've already tried but there is Windows Media Player for Macs

Hello!

Actually it was not obvious to me (maybe it should have been? ), thus I had not tried it, yet after installing the WMP for OS X from Microsoft all worked fine! Thanks!

Always,

Sam

 

[howesey]

Anyone help with getting WM10 files to play?

 

[MisterMe]

Hello All,

Recently I came across a few Windows Media (.wma) video files (one hockey and a few on the rubik's cube) that I would liked to have watched. However after downloading the videos my PowerPC tells me that there is no application available in OS X to view the files. Is this correct? If so is there any file that I can install that will allow me to watch these videos?

Thank you all!

Respectfully,

Sam

The .wma extension means that the file is audio, not video. However, Windows Media Player 9 should play these files without problems.

 

[Texas04]

Anyone help with getting WM10 files to play?

I agree, also does Windows Media Player 9 ever seem choppy or buggy whenever you try to watch video embeded in a website?

 

[kugino]

yeah, but can someone tell me how to play WMV3 files?!?! this is why i despise MS! (one of the reasons, that is)

 

[MisterMe]

yeah, but can someone tell me how to play WMV3 files?!?! this is why i despise MS! (one of the reasons, that is)

Windows Media Player 9

 

[howesey]

WMV3 will play on Windows Media Player 9.

WM10 files I cannot get to work (find codec or a media player). I have 2.2TiB of video encoded in this, and I'm forced to use a PC to view them.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Why won't Microsoft support the latest codecs of their own video format to Mac users? They seem to take forever to do anything nowdays. Even Windows software isn't updated that much anymore. What happened to them? They can't even copy fast anymore.

 

[hookahco]

try VLC from videolan.org
best media player for files that wont play in quicktime

 

[kugino]

Windows Media Player 9

i bet you don't even know what a wmv3 file is
only wmp10 (PC only!) plays wmv3 files...

VLC doesn't play wmv3 files either.

so i stick by my comment. MS sucks.

 

[funkychunkz]

WMV3 will play on Windows Media Player 9.

WM10 files I cannot get to work (find codec or a media player). I have 2.2TiB of video encoded in this, and I'm forced to use a PC to view them.

All good quality? That is alot

 

[Soulstorm]

try VLC from videolan.org
best media player for files that wont play in quicktime

yeah, and in version 0.84 they included wmv3 support but just in he windows version. In the mac there is no way VLC can play WMV3 formats.

 

[MisterMe]

Why won't Microsoft support the latest codecs of their own video format to Mac users? They seem to take forever to do anything nowdays. Even Windows software isn't updated that much anymore. What happened to them? They can't even copy fast anymore.

FWIW, it took M$ more than a year--I forget how much more--to port Windows Media Player 9 to Windows 98. Given this record, it is not surprising that the Redmond Monopoly has yet to port WMP 10 to the Mac. As WMP 11 is just around the corner, I doubt that 10 will ever be ported. Having used it on Windows, however, I am not really sure that this is any great loss.