Flip 4Mac, QT and WMV
I made the switch from PC land to the Imac last week. I have downloaded Flip 4Mac (free version), Windows Media Player 9 and of course have QT on my puter.
There is a passworded website I frequent that has clips in WMV format. Some of them open in QT as a wmv file, others just hang and nothing opens. If I try to open directly with WMV I can't even get it to find the URL.
Should Flip 4Mac play all WMV files? Do I need the pro version?? If not what should play the files. When I called the website they were clueless why some files play and others don't. It seems that their newer files play but not their older files, which really makes no sense at all.
There is a passworded website I frequent that has clips in WMV format. Some of them open in QT as a wmv file, others just hang and nothing opens. If I try to open directly with WMV I can't even get it to find the URL.
Should Flip 4Mac play all WMV files? Do I need the pro version?? If not what should play the files. When I called the website they were clueless why some files play and others don't. It seems that their newer files play but not their older files, which really makes no sense at all.
Comments
The pro version of Flip4Mac is no better at playback so it won't help.
Sometimes I find that some clips take a while to load, for example, you have to wait almost until the movie is finished loading before it plays.
Is it possible to download the clips? If you do a view source on the page, it sometimes has the links to the clip (search for .wmv). If you can't get the link, there are Firefox plugins that help get the direct link.
Sometimes I find that some clips take a while to load, for example, you have to wait almost until the movie is finished loading before it plays.
Luckily the latest public beta adds a progress bar for those slower opening wmv files.