How Mac Users Play Windows Media Video
The internet has become a raucous place for videophiles. Everywhere you click there’s a web page with some video in it. The most conspicuous video format online is Flash, which usually works as a browser plugin for Macs and PCs.
Sometimes you visit a web site that has a video format that won’t play on your Mac. More often than not, those sites are using the popular Windows Media Video file format. Microsoft stopped making a media player for the Mac years ago. What can you do?
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Leland said:
Don’t forget, however, that the latest Flip4Mac installer will also install Microsoft’s Silverlight by default. You’ll have to choose Customize for the installation and uncheck the box for Silverlight. Check today’s post at MacInTouch:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/index.html#d19sep2009
Flip4Mac was once a third-party effort, but remember, it got bought by Microsoft within the last couple years. A sneaky trick like this was inevitable.
I either use the old WM Player or, if a particular video really isn’t available in any other format and is actually worth saving (a rarer situation than you’d imagine), I convert it with iSquint.