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andycheal - 02 Oct 2004 10:03 GMT

Hi, I'm new to mac so I downloaded the familiar old face of WMP (for Mac
v.9). It plays WMV fine, however when I try to play MPEG it says; 'unable to
play, file format invalid'. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Many thanks

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Emily Jackson - 02 Oct 2004 11:34 GMT

> Hi, I'm new to mac so I downloaded the familiar old face of WMP (for Mac
> v.9). It plays WMV fine, however when I try to play MPEG it says; 'unable to
> play, file format invalid'. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

You use the Mac version of WMP only for playing proprietary MS formats
like .wmv and .asf. QuickTime is the general-purpose media application
on the Mac (and should play your MPEG file).

Emily

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 04 Oct 2004 22:24 GMT

> You use the Mac version of WMP only for playing proprietary MS formats
> like .wmv and .asf. QuickTime is the general-purpose media application
> on the Mac (and should play your MPEG file).

For MPEG 2 you'll need an optional (not free) Apple plug-in. You can also use
thrid party players like MPlayer or VLC (a newer - much improved - version of
VLC just came out).

Corentin

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j.salguod - 21 Dec 2004 17:41 GMT

Well, I'm having problem getting WMPv9 to run an ASF formatted video file
with MPEG4 compression.

I've recently purchased a new video camera from Radio Shack. It records to
a SD flash memory card in ASF format and MPEG4 compression. When I patched
the camera to the USB port of my PowerBook G4 'Aluminum' running the newest
version of MacOS X v10.3.7 I could see the camera device as a volume on my
desktop. Upon coping the video files to my hard drive, I attempted to open
the file named 'I3010006.ASF' with Windows Media Play for Mac v9.0 and
receive the following message:

"Windows Media Player cannot play this file because the Player does not
support this codec."

Upon viewing this file in the 'Get Info' it declares that the file Kind is a
Windows Media Audio/Video File and Opens with Windows Media Player (default).
Of course, the files carry the Windows Media Player icon face.

The User's Manual Specifications of the Radio Shack DXG-301V Camera state
that the

File Format: Video: ASF
Compression Format: Video: MPEG4 standard

I don't receive any more luck with trying QuickTime either.

Can anyone help me to get these video files open to use and edit? Many
great thanks.

j.salguod

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 21 Dec 2004 18:01 GMT

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> Can anyone help me to get these video files open to use and edit? Many
> great thanks.

I would try transcoding the file through D-Vision (fre) or FFmpegX
(shareware). Both these apps recognize zillion of formats and could do
wonders there.

You can also try playing the file in VLC. It might be able toplay it
(and it's a pretty good media player anyway :-)) ).

Corentin

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Brett Decarion - 23 Dec 2004 16:15 GMT

I would take the video camera back to Radio Shack and ask for a refund.
Then I would go to Best Buy or some other store that sells video cameras
that saves their video in DV format. This way you can use iMovie for
FCP/FCE with the video camera and not have to worry about any compatibility
issues with installed apps.

On 12/21/04 12:41 PM, in article
6919899B-7521-4567-9162-47F8535216EB@microsoft.com, "j.salguod"

> Well, I'm having problem getting WMPv9 to run an ASF formatted video file
> with MPEG4 compression.
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>> play, file format invalid'. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>> Many thanks

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