Re: WMV on Mac, to Windows

<BradPipo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 23, 7:49 am, gor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (gordon) wrote:
Hi! Can anyone give me an answer to this question?

I have some Windows Media movies downloaded using Flip4Mac (free) on
Safari, and saved from there as QuickTime movies. So they are, I guess,
QT movies with WM video and WM audio content.

I want to pass these (on data CD or DVD) to a friend with a Windows
laptop (but no broadband access). Can these movies be played directly on
a PC with QT for Windows installed?

And how about without QT: what tool would export the content of the
movie to be directly playable as Windows Media?

Thanks,
Gordon

Ya, it should be fine as long as your friend has Quick Time on his
PC.
FYI, compatibility problems these days usually end at hard ware and
programs, but formats
like media or documents are compatible between platforms as long as
they each have progs that can open both.

Thanks! I'll probably have to get them to install QT, and then expect it
to work.
As I'll not be there it would have been useful if something could have
changed the wrapper to native Windows WMV. There are too many utilities
to check them all! I tried VisualHub, but it re-encoded and lost
quality.
.

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