Playing ASX files with windows media player 9 on mac

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huggybear - 12 Nov 2005 17:53 GMT

Hi, I've tried playing ASX files with windows media player 9, real player,
quick time and VLC player and non of them will play them. I found out that
ASX were to do with windows so I thought I'd ask here. How would I go about
playing them on my Mac?
Thanks

Mike

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 14 Nov 2005 17:37 GMT

> Hi, I've tried playing ASX files with windows media player 9, real player,
> quick time and VLC player and non of them will play them. I found out that
> ASX were to do with windows so I thought I'd ask here. How would I go about
> playing them on my Mac?
> Thanks

.asx files are simple pointers towards streaming content. Open the file
in a text editor (even TextEdit) and you'll see the structure of the
file and the links it points towards. You can copy these links and use
them directly in VLC or WMP (Open URL...).
If the codecs used in the streams is not supported by either app, then
you're out of luck :-\

Corentin

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Playing ASX files with windows media player 9 on mac