Posted by Jerry Kindall on 10/18/05 07:18

In article <5j69l1tho3qd110siopt1t13h923gnkvl9@4ax.com>, Not Dave
<not@this.url> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:28:41 +1300, Nathan Mercer <nmercer@gmail.com>
> growled these words from under a rock:
>
> >Helpful Harry wrote:
> >>>>>I have just been reading that you have to buy Quicktime or pay $1.99 for
> >>>>>each
> >>>>>movie or Video..
> >>>>
> >>>>TV episodes (and music videos?) are being sold on Apple's iTunes web
> >>>>store at $2 to $3 each. These can then be played on the computer or
> >>>>transferred to the iPod Video.
> >>>>
> >>>>You don't "have to buy QuickTime" at all. You can download QuickTime
> >>>>for free (if you own a Mac it's already installed, but you may need to
> >>>>download the new QuickTime 7) and the only reason you'd pay for a
> >>>>QuickTime Pro regisitration code is if you want to play moves
> >>>>full-screen size rather than in a window ... or if you're tired of the
> >>>>nagging pop-up window.
> >>>
> >>>What?!? Quicktime wont even show video in full screen?!?
> >>>
> >>>That's pretty crap. Typical Mac, I guess.
> >>
> >>
> >> It has absolutely nothing to do with "Mac".
> >>
> >> It's one of the limitations that Apple have decided to put into the
> >> free version of QuickTime. If you pay to upgrade it to the Pro version
> >> you get full-screen playback (among a few other things). This is no
> >> different to many other companies that have a limited "free" version
> >> and a pay-for "pro" version.
> >>
> >> There is of course other player software that will play the movies
> >> full-screen.
> >
> >URL handy for the software pls?
>
> This one's quite good:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx
>
> Not sure if it runs on the Mac, though.

Yes:

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windo
wsmedia>

But it doesn't play QuickTime movies, of course. (And doesn't do the
rights management stuff that the Windows version does.)

Alternatively, you can register a piece of inexpensive shareware that
will let you play WMV files in QuickTime applications.

<http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm>

--
Jerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/>

Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address.
This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses.

[Back to original message]