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Jan252010

How To Play WMV Files on Mac

Mike asks:

Basically, I bought a MAC and now would like to know how can i play the WMV videos on it?

Thanks In Advance!

Tagged: .wmv, movie, video player

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admin January 25, 2010

Easy! You can play WMV files on Mac OSX with VLC Media Player for Mac. Here is the download link:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

and here are some screenshots

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots.html
ænon1mus February 1, 2010

If you use Quicktime, you could also download a QT plugin called Flip4Mac.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
ænon1mus March 17, 2010

Oh yeah, definitely. VLC works too. But if you want to play the videos in QT or at least render Quick Look properly, then you’ll need the Flip4Mac plugin.
Submit2000 February 8, 2011

You can use Elmedia Player to play WMV and other videos on your Mac (http://mac.eltima.com/wmv-player.html)

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