VLC & WMV3

[guest]

Hi,
I'm using a Mac G4 Running Panther 3.5.2

VLC has been running great. But I just encountered a problem. It was a short WMV clip emailed to me - which I saved on my HD - and it played fine with WMP. But when I tried to open with VLC .0.7.2 and both beta 8's all I got was sound - no video. All other WMV's that I had saved played fine on VLC. This was the first one that would not. It looks like it might be an upgraded WMV format. WMV3?

Here's the message in the error window:

main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `WMV3'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

Choi

[markfm]

WMV3 is proprietary -- no open source implementation, that's why it won't play on your Mac.

The new 0.8 will be able to play WMV3, on Windows, because MS has come out with a new published standard, DMO, that provides hooks to use their CODEC. Unfortunately, no similar standard has been made available for the Mac (or Linux).

[JAM]

That's what I figured.

Thanks for your response though