Hi Folks. just posting this as a clean advisory on the use of quicktime and other associated applications to handle non mac / unsupported media formats.
this is a quick guide with resources to support users running the latest releases of OS X including snow leopard and Lion. Apple quicktime is of course a standard media interface which works in tandem with iTunes and handles most standard media formats based on web enriched content, etc. However, there are cases where Quicktime and iTunes cannot support unsupported media formats such as WMV (windows media video), WMA (windows media audio), AVI (Audio/video interleaved) etc. there are a number of options available to give users access to these formats. These include: Perian. A freeware opensource quicktime extension which is constantly updated to support non standard formats. http://perian.org/ Windows Media for mac (AKA: Flip4Mac) http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.asp?prodid=flip4macwmv VLC Media Player. A universal media player / command line / scriptable system supporting various formats. (This is a stand alone application which can support the interaction of web based content but cannot directly handle embedded materials tied to the site / content provider) http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ The above listed applications are standard tools to support web enriched media and work with quicktime and iTunes with exception as stated to VLC as a standalone system. As many will have noticed, especially users of OS X 10.6 snow leopard and OS X 10.7 Lion, Quicktime is not installed by default, instead, Quicktime X (WEB UI) is installed. This does not support importing, saving or converting media types. This is where a little trick and solution is available. you will need to download Apple quicktime 7 in order to gain certain benefits including support for streaming content embedded to sites which Quicktime X cannot support. you can download quicktime 7 from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923 this works in OS X 10.6.3 upwards including Lion. Quicktime pro can still be used and a key purchased from apple or if you're using any of apple's pro applications like logic or final cut pro, then quicktime would be upgraded to pro as a media user. I hope this guide helps to rectify some users issues with media content support either on the host system or through web authored content. lew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
