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From: Keith Brown
Sent: 23 July 2007 21:43
Subject: .wmv for Mac
Tony - we spoke at the AGM about the difficulty which Mac users can have in viewing .wmv video clips on the MHR website.
I've found that the "Flip4Mac" wmv tools for Quicktime work well with OS10.4.
These can be downloaded from www.flip4mac.com. The basic viewer plugin is free (this isn't very obvious on the website) but you have to pay for the other tools in the package if you want them. Excellent PDF documentation is included.
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Thank you Keith. Let's hope they don't all catch up with web-movies at the same time and overload the servers! d:-) ... tw

Sent: 24 July 2007 05:17
I recently found the Flip4Mac plug-in that Keith talks about on the Microsoft website where it is a bit more obvious that its a free
download than the Flip4mac site itself.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=915D874D-D747-4180-A400-5F06B1B5E559&displaylang=en
I find it far easier to view .wmv files this way than in Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X.
Regards
Phil Kitchen

From: Richard Salmon
Sent: 19 February 2004 12:52
Subject: Viewing the .wmv Movies on your Website
Tony
There are two Windoze Media Players available for Macintosh, depending on which operating system people have.
Hope this helps
Regards
Richard

From: Rob Forster
Sent: 10 February 2004 23:33
To: Tony Wood
Subject: Macs and Windows Media Vids
Tony
What did you try on the Mac to play .wmv files? Presume he has downloaded the Windows Media Player for Macintosh from Microsoft?
Rob

From: Phil Harris
Sent: 12 February 2004 00:31
Subject: Windows Media Player for Mac/ TW's videos
...sorry to say that I have had no success viewing the videos since last autumn.
I thought my "set-up" was at fault but maybe the problem is more complicated.
I have Mac OSX...when I try to "open" a video clip using WMP, OS9 opens and attempts to play the clip via I-Tunes.
This might seem like total rubbish to non-Mac users! It's not much use to me, either!
Have other Mac-users encountered similar problems? ...looking forward to viewing the clips in due course!
Phil Harris

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