Unable to hear audio on .wmv file cammander 12/4/2008 10:01:01 PM I have downloaded and installed flip4Mac WMV and can listen to ad view a sample .wmv file, however I have another one in which I can only see the video, no audio is playing and there is audio available. Any ideas on how to solve this situation? Mac OS 10.5.5 3.06.GHz Intel Core Duo QT 7.5.5

Re: Unable to hear audio on .wmv file Corentin_Cras-Méneur 12/5/2008 9:31:11 PM cammander <cammander[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have downloaded and installed flip4Mac WMV and can listen to ad view a > sample .wmv file, however I have another one in which I can only see the > video, no audio is playing and there is audio available. The problem is that WMV is simply a container format (like .avi or ..mov). Many many different codecs can be used to encode the video (and audio) inside and there is quite a possibility that the video you have is using one of the codecs not supported though Flip4Mac. It could also be that the file is protected through DRM (and therefore cannot be played on a Mac). Corentin -- --- Mac:MS MVP http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire

Re: Unable to hear audio on .wmv file "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil[ at ]nospam.com> 12/6/2008 5:55:34 PM On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:31:11 -0600, korventeen[ at ]NoSpam.mvps.org (Corentin Cras-Méneur) wrote: [Quoted Text] >cammander <cammander[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > >> I have downloaded and installed flip4Mac WMV and can listen to ad view a >> sample .wmv file, however I have another one in which I can only see the >> video, no audio is playing and there is audio available. > >The problem is that WMV is simply a container format (like .avi or >.mov). >Many many different codecs can be used to encode the video (and audio) >inside and there is quite a possibility that the video you have is using >one of the codecs not supported though Flip4Mac. Just to fill in the gaps here : The Flip4Mac FAQ http://www.flip4mac.com/faqs_wmv.htm#05 says WMA voice codec is not available presently. To expand on what Korventeen said, in fact WMV is not a container format per-se : The ASF file type is the container format, which can contain video encoded using pretty much any codec, though normally it's a variant of WMV, WMA and/or MPEG4 video, possibly MP3 audio. WMV is a specific ~type~ of ASF where the audio and video are encoded using windows media video codecs - one from a selection, including WMV7-WMV9, VC-1 high definition or WMV9 Screen codec and various WMA9 audio codec types including WMA9 voice. So it's pretty amazing that Flip4Mac plays back so many possible variants in Quicktime - but sadly not all. And as Korventeen rightly said, if the file is DRM protected, you're hosed - in the same way iTunes protected files can't be played in windows media player HTH Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs