Play WMV on Mac

Another Mac app that comes in handy is iSquint, which converts several file formats, including WMV, into QuickTime (and iTunes, and PSP) compatible MPEG-4 files.

hi i am trying to download the windows media player to be able to play .wmv flies on my mac, when i go to the windows wesite and downlaod the win media player its downloaded in a .stx file or something, when i click on this it just says cannot open is there a easier way to download?

EDITOR'S NOTE: It's in BinHex (.hqx) format, which should be recognized by any Mac system. Are you downloading to a Mac or Windows machine?

My mac has suddenly stopped opening files my friends send me with .wmv extensions. I downloaded and updated my WMV player and the Flip-for-Mac download of Quicktime but nothing will open these files. It used to work. What do I do?

to give answer to your question,
you can download flip4mac
with this programm you can play your wmv and wma files on your mac

I use iSquint. It is really good. And now its shareware is open now.

VisualHub is a good WMV Converter for Mac.

I downloaded flipmac on my mac to view WMV files but it still does not work. Is there an extra step involved in the download process?

I have found that some WMV files are ok with Flip4Mac but there are some which when you play them, give you audio but no video. I have tried with Windows Media Player for Mac too but it seems there is a codec that isn't supported by either platform. Another forum I read said this is the Windows Media Video Image codec. Does anyone out there have a solution for playing these particular files on a Mac? I managed to get them playing on WMP on a PC fine after installing the G2M3 codec, which makes sense as the files we are playing are from a webinar, and that is what GoToMeeting specialises in, but still no joy with the Mac. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Greg,
Have you had any luck? I have the same problem. I have tried FLIP4MAC and WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER and have had no luck.

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I have a digital copy of a blue ray but cannot download it to my Mac. I would like to transfer into I Tunes so that I can put it on my I pad. I have downloaded Flip 4 Mac so that I can watch it but cannot down load. Any help please.

Ok I have made a video with my cam on my HP computer. Can I convert it before I email it to my friend who has a mac??

I have a Mac (Intel 10.6.8) and downloaded Flip-4-Mac two years ago. This has been trouble-free to someone who has problems with anything 'software'. Except for one other app- Elmedia Player- this service provided the un-advertised ability of nearly automatically playing and recording YouTube videos, where ALL others failed.

WMV (Windows Media Video) format is Microsoft's proprietary video file format which Apple's Mac OS X system and QuickTime player don't support this format.

An article introduces two methods to play WMV on Mac at: http://www.faasoft.com/articles/play-wmv-on-mac.html

Method One: Play WMV on Apple's computer with Windows system

Method Two: Convert WMV to Mac OS X System Supported Formats

I use iDealshare VideoGo to directly play WMV on Mac.
Besides play WMV, it also can convert WMV to Mac more supported MP4 or MOV.

Here is just the step by step guide at http://www.idealshare.net/video-converter/wmv-to-mov-converter-mac-windows.html

It also helps to convert MOV to WMV, or convert WMV to MP4, DV, ProRes, MP3, WAV, AAC, M4A, FLV, MKV etc.

Avdshare Video Converter can easily convert the WMV file format to Mac QuickTime more supported MOV, MP4 and then users can smoothly play the converted WMV file on Mac without any format incompatibility issue.