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From: Chris Ridd on 22 Apr 2010 01:38
On 2010-04-22 01:48:05 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:25:25 +0100, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> In article <1jhbidp.rlakurgp4n12N%nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk>, Duncan
>> Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:
>>
>>> I get Windows Media Files - usually home videos and sometimes others -
>>> from family.
>>>
>>> Any advice on what to use to ope them with. (Resisting using my Win
>>> computers for the purpose.)
>>
>> Flip4Mac - costs a little and enables Quicktime to deal with most of
>> them (but they take a long time to open in QT Player).
>
> It's free for the useful playback part, and no longer does that
> "opening..." step you mention below.

Yes, you just have to configure it to "Import files completely" (which
is pretty quick) in Quicktime Player 7, using the Flip4Mac preference
pane. The default is to import /really/ slowly in the background.

--
Chris

From: Peter Ceresole on 23 Apr 2010 12:31
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> > Certainly works with Flip4Mac. Don't know about Perian. Quite a lot
> > of movies won't play in it although they play fine in QT7; whether
> > that's due to not playing with Perian I don't know.
>
> As I understand it (ie, badly) QTX _will_ use Perian (or any other
> non-native QTX codec) via a helper process.
>
> Certainly I can play DivX and XviD stuff in QTX just fine.

This is all good news for me, as I hope to be getting an iMac soon
(Oooooo!) well, within a few weeks, and I'd hate to be going backwards.

It doesn't matter how much faster the machine is if it can't do quite
basic things. But I've been using Anne's 2.4 GHz MBP some of the time,
and I'm rilly, rilly looking forward to a 3GHz iMac...
--
Peter
From: Duncan Kennedy on 22 Apr 2010 05:30
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> On 2010-04-22 01:48:05 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:25:25 +0100, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> In article <1jhbidp.rlakurgp4n12N%nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk>, Duncan
> >> Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I get Windows Media Files - usually home videos and sometimes others -
> >>> from family.
> >>>
> >>> Any advice on what to use to ope them with. (Resisting using my Win
> >>> computers for the purpose.)
> >>
> >> Flip4Mac - costs a little and enables Quicktime to deal with most of
> >> them (but they take a long time to open in QT Player).
> >
> > It's free for the useful playback part, and no longer does that
> > "opening..." step you mention below.
>
> Yes, you just have to configure it to "Import files completely" (which
> is pretty quick) in Quicktime Player 7, using the Flip4Mac preference
> pane. The default is to import /really/ slowly in the background.

Thanks, everyone, as usual. Plenty of very useful advice and
information - I shall give a couple a try.

--
duncank
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