[geeks] Powerbook LCD replacement; Windows Media suckage

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:17:22PM -0600, Matthew Braun wrote:

> Also, are there any options for playing Windows Media 9 movies on my 
> Mac? The performance of the Windows Media player is gawdawful: I click 
> somewhere in the video stream to advance and then wait 3 or 4 seconds 
> before it skips ahead. I don't think VLC can play WMV9 files yet, so 
> I'm looking into other options (barring that, is there any way to 
> convert to MOV or MPEG)?

I've had good luck playing non-DRM'ed WM9 files with mplayer.  It isn't
as userfriendly as VLC, but that just means you have to remeber a few
control keystrokes (space to pause/play, arrow keys for FF/RW, etc).

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