Thanks Bill, really learned something from you, great info. John
On May 8, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Bill Micou wrote: > You know John, I have both Flip4Mac and VLC on my mac, and I'd forgotten > about Flip4Mac. Actually, when I play a video, I have no idea what is > opening/ converting/ playing it. It all happens so seamlessly. I did a > search of Flip4Mac vs. VLC and got this answer: > (there must be another converter called 'Perian' out there) > > <Flip4Mac only provides support for Microsoft video codecs whereas Perian > provides that and more. I'm not sure you actually need Flip4Mac if you have > Perian, but Flip4Mac is what Microsoft now offer instead of their own media > player for Mac which they discontinued. I have both installed. > > VLC on the other hand is a media player application that can be used as an > alternative to the Quicktime player. It uses the same open source codec > library as Perian and adds support for some more esoteric codecs/formats. > However, I very rarely come across a video file that only VLC can play. > > What VLC does offers over the Quicktime player is proper playlist support. > Although you can achieve simple playlist functionality using Quick Look by > selecting multiple files in Finder and pressing the space bar or Cmd-Y. > > > I love it when my boss - a Windoze XP user - can't open a file and will send > it to me to easily convert on my Mac. "It just works..." > > Bill > > On May 8, 2010, at 6:30 PM, John Robinson wrote: > >> Bill, how does this differ from Flip4Mac's Windows Media Player? >> >> John >> >> >> On May 8, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Bill Micou wrote: >> >>> I use one called VLC from this website: >>> >>> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> >>> On May 8, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: >>> >>>> What is the best .mwv player for the MAC OS? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Nora J. Probasco >>>> Genetic-Genealogist >>>> Group Administrator: >>>> Probasco/Bartoszewski/Bartos DNA Project >>>> Brookshire/Brookshier/Brookshaw DNA Project >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MacGroup mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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