the heartbreak of .wmv format
Every mac user has a pretty good time on the internet these days, except for one reoccurring problem: occasional Windows Media Files. Lord only knows why Microsoft has invented a format that they don’t plan to actually support, but their Windows Media Player software for the mac has always stunk and stunk bad.
Well, now thanks to a wonderful, magical company named Telestream, this problem is no more. They licensed the Windows Media Codec and, get this, they actually ported it to the Mac OS X platform! And what’s better, what used to be a 10$ product for playback is now free; they only charge you if you want to make .wmv files, and honestly, except for the criminally insane who would ever want to do that. Pick it up and banish Microsoft’s Windows Media Player from your desktop forever.
~jeff
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:58 am
Uhm, mplayer for OSX supports .wmv, so really, this is nothing new or exciting, especially considering mplayer is free and has been around for ages…
PS that’s mplayer, not Media Player.