On 22/04/2006, at 6:42 PM, Paul Chong wrote:
Every time I click on the wmv file, Graphic Converter X V4.9
automatically takes over.
Result: unknown format and can't be opened. Now upon advice from
Kevin Lock I downloaded
the Window Media Player for Mac. The question is: How do I get the
Window Media Player to
automatically open instead of the Graphic Converter?
BTW, I also have Flip4MacWMV.
Paul
If you have Flip4Mac installed, why not just have them open in
Quicktime Player?
1. Click on a .wmv file (any one will do) and choose File > Get Info
from the Finder Menu. Look for the panel called "Open With:" in the
Info window.
2. Click on the popup menu (which no doubt says Graphic Converter at
the moment) and choose "Other..." from the list.
3. Navigate to your Applications folder in the resultant Open file
dialog, and change "Recommended Applications" to "All Applications",
then choose "Quicktime Player".
4. Back in the Info window, click the "Change All..." button.
From now on, all .wmv files will open on Quicktime Player (if
they're able to. Some won't open in anything at all one the Mac. It's
just Microsoft's idea of how a "standard" should behave). If you
have Quicktime Pro, you can even save the movie back as a .mov file,
and forget about Windows Media Player forever. Yay.
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FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
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