Comments on: How to play Windows Media files on a Mac

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In Beijing » Blog Archive » welcome, myapplemenu readers — Sun, 28 May 2006 10:12:37 +0000

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By: orcasmac

orcasmac — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:27:18 +0000

I’ve tried Flip4Mac WMV Player with QuickTime Player and it’s works fine. Being a plug-in, it offers an added advantage — I can now catalog and view wmv files in iView MultiMedia Pro, the program I use to catalog photos (and now movies!).

By: Peter Gøthgen

Peter Gøthgen — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:23:41 +0000

I highly recommend flip4mac’s solution. Of all the media players I’ve tryed (including all those you mentioned) quicktime player is the only decent one. Every other player (most egregiously Windows Media Player & RealPlayer) has to buffer files that are local, and stutters and barfs if you want to do something as simple as pause (and you can forget about jumping to a particular spot or live scrolling!). flip4mac’s solution has so far worked precisely as advertised. Well worth the small amount of change.