VLC can't played WMV files

[ericaloysius]

Hi, I have read the VLC web site and it said that VLC support most of the Video streaming. However, when I tried to played some of my WMV files, there is happending.

Can anyone help me?


Eric

[zcot]

you have to offer more info, or else people will only be able to guess at a solution.

vlc will play wmv.. see here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

[fkuehne]

@Eric: Do you have Windows Media Player 9 or 10 installed? VLC needs that to play WMV3 correctly.
If yes, provide some debug messages here (see View -> Messages).

[Jerry]

If I understand the previous post correctly, I should be able to play files with the fourcc WMV3 codec. I have Windows Media Player 9 installed on Mac OS X 10.4.

There seems to be some confusion, because WMP seems only to be able to decode WMV3 files in the .wmv wrapper, but the files I need to play are .avi's.

Any help? Can I rewap these puppies as .wmv with some util (either Mac or Windows)? Will that help?

[fkuehne]

You can only play WMV3-content with VLC on Windows. Installing WMP for Mac does not help, since VLC cannot access its codecs (and that wouldn't be legal either).

Sorry, I don't no any application that isn't from M$ to create WMV-containers. You should still be able to play these files with VLC on Windows though.

[Guest]

Thanks for the response. My much newer Windows laptop is a better video player anyway, I just hate lugging the dang thing around.

[ericaloysius]

Thanks for all your help. Anyway, I think I will stick to mpeg or avi files which can make my life easier.

[Guest]

You can only play WMV3-content with VLC on Windows. Installing WMP for Mac does not help, since VLC cannot access its codecs (and that wouldn't be legal either).

how come the features list mentions it?

[The DJ]

"You can only play WMV3-content with VLC on Windows"

The features list clearly shows this in the table.