[P1] OT: do i have to use wmp or realplayer?

[Joe Jones]

You won't find many (any?) programs that will play windows media and 
real media files other than the apps made specifically for them.

The formats are closed and proprietary for a good reason - to force you 
to use their respective players (and in the case of Windows media, to 
maintain control).

I believe there are some projects out there that enable you to change 
the nasty formats into something generic, but yo can't play them 
directly.

If you are going to use one of them, I'd have to suggest Real media on 
the Mac. The player is actually quite reasonable (no spyware or other 
offensive stuff like the PC version), and the most current incarnation 
of the codec works on OS X.

Windows Media, on the other hand, works up to version 8 of the codec, 
but the new version 9 codec (that a lot of content is being produced in 
now) /doesn't/ work on OS X, for no reason other than the fact that 
Microsoft doesn't want it to. If you want to view windows media files 
that use the version 9 codec, you must use Windows.

Joe

On Saturday, Jul 12, 2003, at 00:20 Europe/London, Jeremy weiss wrote:

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>>> Date: Wed Jul 9, 2003  4:29:08  PM US/Pacific
>>> To: iBook List <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>>> Subject: OT: do i have to use wmp or realplayer?
>>>
>>> greetings all!
>>>
>>> want to start out with an overdue thanks to all who suggested what 
>>> apps they cant live without...i really appreciated the help.
>>>
>>> now for the question: is there a plug-in that can make quicktime 6 
>>> read/work real player or windows media player files? i just switched 
>>> over to sbcyahoo dsl and in order to use their video/audio options 
>>> you must have one of the two.
>>>
>>> after doing some research, i really would like to avoid both and 
>>> just use
>>> QT. but if i do have to use them, which one would y'all recommend?
>>>
>>> thanks again for the help!
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> jeremy
>>>
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