At 4:36 PM -0800 2/26/2011, Tom wrote:
Some of the movies I download off the net are in WMV format, and
QuickTime Player won't play them (I have QT 7.6.9 pro).
You need to install the codecs for QuickTime to use to decode them.
Flip4Mac, as others have mentioned, is the "official" solution for wma/wmv.
<http://www.flip4mac.com/>
And Perian is a nifty collection of all the others you'll need - divx, etc.
<http://perian.org/>
Note however, there will still be some wmv files that won't play.
That's because they use a DRM system that's MS proprietary, and is
only usable on Windows.
Another alternative to playing videos is to use Video LAN Client
(VLC). It's a great free player, and has many many codecs already
built-in. heh. It can play a lot of mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 videos that
make QuickTime crash!
<http://www.videolan.org/>
Doing a web search, I find third-party utilities that will do this
conversion, priced from $25 to $50, but hasn't anyone created a
shareware app that can do it?
Transcoding is easy, one you know the key: almost every transcoder
app available ultimately uses the same engine -- ffmpeg. FFmpeg is
free / open-source, but has no pretty GUI.
<http://ffmpeg.org/>
FFmpegX is a GUI that contains a build of ffmpeg. Shareware. Works well.
My preference, however, is to install the free Burn.app. Besides
doing a nice job creating simple DVD-Video discs, it contains a full
build of ffmpeg that you can access directly from the command line
(Terminal.app).
<http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html>
HTH,
- Dan.
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