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• Reply 1 of 5

  kickaha Posts: 8,760member

  April 29, 2005 5:31PM

  WMA/WMV are Windows Media Player only.
  
  
  
  Real is RealPlayer only.
  
  
  
  (Proprietary codecs and formats suck, don't they?)
  
  
  
  However... both of those applications are available for the Mac, and there are a couple of good *free* apps for playing them without resorting to installing WMP or RealPlayer: VLC and MPlayer.
  
  
  
  Personally, I prefer VLC. WMP and Real Player both have serious issues in comparison.

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• Reply 2 of 5

  endymion Posts: 375member

  April 29, 2005 11:49PM

  You can now play wmv via Quicktime with flip4mac's new software and it seems to play better for most vids.

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• Reply 3 of 5

  junkyard dawg Posts: 2,801member

  April 30, 2005 10:03PM

  I've found that VLC plays windows media files better than Windows Media Player for Mac. WiMP for Mac is a giant turd that should be kept away from your system unless your life depends on it.
  
  
  
  Lots of folks swear by mPlayer, so give that a try too.
  
  
  
  My personal advice - if at all possible - is to destroy these windows media files you have. Use Secure Empty Trash so they vanish without a trace.

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  kishan Posts: 732member

  May 1, 2005 7:34AM

  At least on the XP version of iTunes, you can convert non-secure .wma files to .m4a.

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• Reply 5 of 5

  lennox14 Posts: 2member

  May 2, 2005 11:49AM

  Thanks for all the help, I got VLC player i seem to find that it works fairly well, but one problem I made before installing VLC player is that I installed Windows Media Player. Now everytime I try to delete it it syays I can not because it says the item htm is in use. Does anyone know what this means and how to delete WMP....thanks

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