Hi Jo; Here are help tips that I received when I ran into the same issue that you are having. Hi Mike, I'm new here so let's see if I can help. First the WMV file is a Windows Media Video and needs to be played in Windows Media Player or some other WMV compliant player. You can associate the file in Windows by going to...
1. Go to My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options 2. Shift-Tab to the General Tab, and move right to the File Types Tab 3. Tab once, hit a "W" on your keyboard to jump down in the list to find the WMV entry. 4. Tab to get to the Change button which will open a list of programs, find Windows Media Player, Tab to check the box for Always use this program and click Ok. Done. Hope that helps! You can accomplish the same thing by navigating to the actual file, hold your left-shift key while right-clicking the file to select Open With and choose Windows Media Player in the same manner as Step 4 above. Thanks, Hi-Tech Tarheel [email protected] If you do in fact have windows media player installed, then you might need to check if that file extension doesn't maybe have an extra space at the end or something which is stopping windows from recognising it and knowing what to do with it. Alternatively, if you go to the file menu in that message, you can then save the attachment somewhere, and apart from then sort of attempting to check the actual extension using the F2 key when then browsing to it in windows explorer, you can also try something like the context menu, go down to open with... and see what is available there. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: Jo Luland To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An unknown file extension I just received a file with a "wmv" extension and, of course, I can't open it. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to open it and what kind of file is this? Thanks. Jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ferrin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An unknown file extension > FLAC is a compressed audio file but when it is extracted then it is > completely lossless. In other words nothing has been removed from it > compared to the original recording unlike MP3 files which are considered > lossy. > David Ferrin > www.jaws-users.com > Life is what happens after you have already made other plans. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Desiree Oudinot" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:13 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An unknown file extension > > > Just out of curiosity, why is it that this is considered the highest > quality of audio format, yet it's compressed? How does that work when > it seems a compressed mp3 file would have the opposite effect? > > On 2/23/10, Stewart A Overbey, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> My pleasure, I just looked it up using the "research it" feature of JAWS. >> Just typing in "FLAC," then choosing Wikepedia, and voila! >> >> Blessings, >> Stewart A Overbey Jr. >> Bless the Lord o my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Mike & Barbara" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:07 AM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An unknown file extension >> >>> Hi Stewart; >>> >>> Thanks for the added info. I did convert the file to a ".mp3" format >>> and >>> this sound file wasn't worth the effort, but learning about the file >>> extension certainly was! Take care. >>> Mike >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Stewart A Overbey, Jr. >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 7:59 AM >>> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An unknown file extension >>> >>> >>> I believe it is a flash video file extention. >>> >>> FLAC >>> Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a file format for lossless audio >>> data >>> compression, primarily authored by Josh Coalson. >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "Mike & Barbara" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:30 AM >>> To: "Jaws-Users List" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [JAWS-Users] An unknown file extension >>> >>>> Hi All; >>>> >>>> I recently received an attachment with a ".flac" file extension. I >>>> tried >>>> to >>>> find it in the list of file extensions on the website with no luck. >>>> Would >>>> someone please tell me what type of file this is or what program is >>>> most >>>> commonly used to open such a file? I am running XPSP3 Home, OE, & Jaws >>>> 10 >>>> latest. All help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Take >>>> care. >>>> Mike >>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>> >>> >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
