On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:59 PM, mikewatk wrote: > I have never, until recently, had any trouble clicking open those > little wmv. videos. They open in QuickTime, usually. I still can > view such things on a web site, but when someone sends me just the > little QuickTime logo with the subject below as an attachment to an > E-mail. no can do! I have a feeling it must have happened with some > update or another. What needs to be set (and where is it) for me to > again be able to view these on Version OX10.3.9 on my iMac? Anyone, > please?
Show the movie info in QuickTime Player and check out the audio and video codecs used on the video. Chances are you don't have the appropriate codecs installed. In particular, the DivX, XviD and 3ivX plugins have all been upgraded recently. These are among the most common formats for video on the Web. For Windows media files, Microsoft has passed on the development to Flip4Mac [1]. They have a free plugin that will give you some compatibility with Windows Media files. I've, so far, not been impressed with it. There has been a fight since spring to get it to work reliably with Major League Baseball streaming. It will somewhat work for a few weeks and then inexplicably not work at all for a few more weeks. (It's in the not work at all phase right now.) [1] <http://www.flip4mac.com/> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060826/ba62c6a7/attachment.bin
