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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / November 2005Why won't WMP for Mac open .wmv format files?
I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid format error message Hi riddim, > I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The > webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up > Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on > my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid format error message It might be because the codecs used to create them are not supported on WMP9... The Mac version only supports a limited set of codecs and will also choke if the file uses DRM7. You can still try opening the file in VLC or MPlayer X. These apps might be able to play some of the unsupported formats. Corentin  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Thanks Corentin, for that info As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe that's not supported. As far as other movie players that would work, I was using VLC successfully when the movie-maker was posting his movies in AVI format. Then he switched to .wmv (claiming better compression ratio), and now VLC will not open them, which is what made me try WMV for Mac. Since that won't work either, I'll be looking for a player that will. You mentioned MPlayer X, which I haven't heard of, but will find and try. Do you know of any other players that might work? It's certainly a shame there's so many complicated formats to play a simple movie. I sure wish there was just one or two universal formats/players out there. Sheesh! > Hi riddim, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Corentin > Thanks Corentin, for that info > As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe > that's not supported. That's QUITE different. You mean DivX in wmv containers ?? Ouch... that won;t play in WMP. > As far as other movie players that would work, I was using VLC successfully > when the movie-maker was posting his movies in AVI format. Then he switched > to .wmv (claiming better compression ratio), Weird... I thought most fo the compression ration was acheived through the codec itself (which remains the same in this case). If he/she wants good compression ration, I would suggest H264... > and now VLC will not open them, > which is what made me try WMV for Mac. Since that won't work either, I'll be > looking for a player that will. You mentioned MPlayer X, which I haven't > heard of, but will find and try. Do you know of any other players that might > work? I don;t see any player that would play these files. You could try MPlayer X but it should be the samedb as VLC. You could try to transcode the file to another format through an app like D-Vision or FFMpegX. They sometimes manage to convert formats that noa player on the Mac can read. > It's certainly a shame there's so many complicated formats to play a simple > movie. I sure wish there was just one or two universal formats/players out > there. Sheesh! :-( Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Signaturethere is no out > > Thanks Corentin, for that info > > As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Corentin > > > Thanks Corentin, for that info > > > As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe > > > that's not supported. > > > > That's QUITE different. You mean DivX in wmv containers ?? Ouch... that > > won;t play in WMP. It sure won't - but I found a fairly easy workaround to open Divx/wmv files with regular QuickTime: just rename your files to end with suffix .avi and then run them through the donationware utility DivXWMAConverter. <http://www.carrafix.com/DivXWMAConverter/> This method works for me about 95% of the time and produces new .avi files with audio converted to mp3 format. SignatureYour best buddy, Biggus Dickus Signaturethere is no out > > Thanks Corentin, for that info > > As far as Codecs, the movie's originator says they're Divx codec, maybe [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Corentin Signaturethere is no out > I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The > webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up > Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on > my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid format error message |
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