Open and Play Windows Media Audio and Video Files (WMA and WMV) on Mac OS

If you’re using a Macintosh computer such as MacBook running on MacOS, and wants to play and open Windows Media Audio (.wma) or Windows Media Video (.wmv) files, you will need a little tweak and add-on to the Quicktime Player. Basically there is no native support for WMA and WMV format files in Quicktime player and thus on Mac OS despite Quicktime is a universally accepted multimedia standard supported on Windows.

So in order to open and play Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video file formats in Mac, you will need to install Windows Media Components for QuickTime by Flip4Mac and distributed by Microsoft. The Flip4Mac Windows Media Components for QuickTime plug-in enables support for Windows Media files on Quicktime and thus you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.

Flip4Mac Windows Media Components for QuickTime is optimized for Power Mac G4 and G5 computers and supports playback of high-definition Windows Media video files, and requires Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later and QuickTime version 6.5 or later. It doesn’t support content that is protected with Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) though.

Download Windows Media Components for QuickTime by Flip4Mac from Microsoft.

4 Responses to “Open and Play Windows Media Audio and Video Files (WMA and WMV) on Mac OS”

  1. Jackson
    May 22nd, 2009 09:56
    4

    Sounds stupid, but how am I supposed to Download it? I see no link for downloading it…

  2. WMV Converter mac
    December 1st, 2008 20:12
    3

    Thanks.
    Very good.

  3. mena
    October 31st, 2008 22:10
    2

    thxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  4. Jerome
    November 21st, 2007 10:47
    1

    Thanks a lot for the tip, you saved me a lot of time trying various things around. I love the total integration into the MAC OS X system.

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