So all of these still pose the problem of poor WMV playback. Then there’s the lovely VLC media player, which is generally fantastic and comes highly recommended, its only flaw being weak Windows Media support: the Mac version won’t play WM9/VC1 files, for instance.
You can get round Apple’s hamstrung Quicktime Player by using NicePlayer along with the Perian and Flip4Mac components, though Windows Media support is still less than satisfactory as Flip4Mac has to index the entire file before it can seek through it, using plenty of CPU while it’s indexing, so expect jerky video if you’re playing HD content or your Mac’s over a year old, and forget about skipping forward.
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(Seriously, what is up with that? You’ve just spent a large chunk of money on a machine and they won’t let you play a movie full-screen easily without shelling out more cash? Sheesh.) so by default won’t play full-screen thanks to Apple’s cheap-ass decision to cripple its media player. You’ll have discovered that the options are limited: there’s the “official” choice of Microsoft’s awful Windows Media Player for Mac, which they’ve now stopped developing, or its successor in the limited-but-free Flip4Mac components, which work through Quicktime. If you’re a Mac user, like me, at some point you’ll probably have had the misfortune to trying to play Windows Media Videos (WMVs). I’ve also finally re-added the binary downloads (built from the trunk as of ), please leave a comment letting me know if they work for you (or not)! Update: I’ve overhauled this article to reflect the various changes that have happened since its creation.
Update (): New binaries, including mencoder x264 support (hopefully) and a link to the MPlayer Extended frontend.
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