Windows Media Player question
I just downloaded some audio clips that have the extension .asf. i've never seen this before but the default player for this file type is WMP. It didn't work (no suprise) so I tried it with VLC, MPlayer and itunes with no sucess. does anyone know how I can play this filetype?
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Originally posted by Sekio
I just downloaded some audio clips that have the extension .asf. i've never seen this before but the default player for this file type is WMP. It didn't work (no suprise) so I tried it with VLC, MPlayer and itunes with no sucess. does anyone know how I can play this filetype?
ASF plays in Windows Media Player on the PC.
Looks like you might be out of luck.
Originally posted by mikef
This is a Windows streaming file format (exported by some digital cameras, for example) and I've had no luck playing them on OS X.
Some .asfs work for me on the latest os x WMP. Others don't.
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Originally posted by MacCrazy
But WMP sucks on windows too.
What an insightful comment!
WMP used to be pretty poor on the PC, but it's really quite okay now. Since version 9, and now version 10 it's stable, very quick, and will accept any plug-in codec you care to throw at it. I used it for everything except .mov files.
VLC I just don't get on with on the PC. Too clunky by far.
I agree with the previous poster... VLC is a bit rough around the edges. When it works (ie. playing a DVD in a folder or something routine), it works great. It struggles with some file formats that it claims to support though. (Same as on OS X, for what it's worth)
Originally posted by mikef
WMP does not suck on Windows. Have you ever used it? Being a Microsoft creation aside, it's a relatively polished application and isn't the resource hog it once was. It's quite usable.
I agree with the previous poster... VLC is a bit rough around the edges. When it works (ie. playing a DVD in a folder or something routine), it works great. It struggles with some file formats that it claims to support though. (Same as on OS X, for what it's worth)
Windows Media Player might have work for you, but I had a 64 bit windows machince before I sold it and bought my Macs, and I could get Windows Media Player to work without locking up everything, it took up so much ram and slowed the pc down dramatically and it was a 2.5 GHZ 64 bit Amd Athlon proccessor with 1 gig of ram. That is why I used Itunes on my pc and that was before I realized just how good Macintosh Computers and Apple software were and are. I have a 450 mhz G4 Cube and a G3 500 mhz IBook, and iTunes runs better on these older computers than WMP did on my state of the art 64bit machine, at the time it was really up to date.
Now you can argue the layout and design of WMP, but just when I had gotten use to WMP 9, they went to WMP 10 and changed every freaking thing about the layout and it would lock up when you have a library of songs over 500 on me and I found that it was really difficult to use.
Now I am just stating my opion, and I also want to mention that I have not used a Windows machine other than to check email for well over 5 months, so it is possible that Microsoft fixed the resource problems I encountered with WMP(unlikely but possible in my opion however).
I will say that Windows Media Player for Windows XP Pro is DRAMATICALLY more elegant, resourceful, clean cut, and more productive than the crappy WMP I download from Microsofts website the other day for my Cube. Compared to the OS X version, yeah the WMP on Windows XP is sweet.
WMP on a PC has awful full-screen controls and lacks decent graphics and an intuitive user interface. WMP on a Mac is a joke - and streaming on WMP is a joke on both platforms. For streaming QuickTime is better - it's just QuickTime looks so out of place on a PC - it's not glossy! So both have their faults.
You're damn right WMP for Mac is a joke. The fact that it hasn't been updated for a year and 10 days says a lot about it!
Originally posted by Sekio
I hate the fact that you have to get Pro just to get full screen for Quicktime.
You're damn right WMP for Mac is a joke. The fact that it hasn't been updated for a year and 10 days says a lot about it!
QuickTime can go full-screen for free - just use this script:
tell application "QuickTime Player" to present movie 1
Put it in the script folder (User)/Library/Scripts and enable the script menu then you can enter full-screen from anywhere. Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Script Menu.menu
(You'll need to use script editor to save the script)
Originally posted by kotatsu
ASF plays in Windows Media Player on the PC. Looks like you might be out of luck.
Any one know if all .asf files work on VPC 7?
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