[Web4lib] Downloadable audiobooks - Windows Media Player for theMacintosh?

[Andrew Hankinson]

I use it all the time.

Microsoft has stopped producing Windows Media player for the Mac and  
have opted to promote this as the way to play WMV files on the Mac.

It doesn't support the DRM features and it's still on WMV9 so any  
video in WMV10 is unplayable on the Mac.

-Andrew


On 9-Aug-07, at 9:19 AM, Michael L. Champion wrote:

> I'm not a Mac user but has anyone tried this:
>
> Windows Media(r) Components for QuickTime
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=915d874d- 
> d747-4
> 180-a400-5f06b1b5e559&DisplayLang=en#Overview
>
>
> Here is the "Advanced version"
>
> http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
>
> Michael Champion
> Head, Information Technology Services
> Lake Villa District Library
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Edward Spodick
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:03 PM
> To: Cary Gordon; 'Bret Parker'; Web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Downloadable audiobooks - Windows Media Player
> for theMacintosh?
>
> At 12:10 PM -0700 8/7/07, Cary Gordon wrote:
>> Have you tried the free VideoLAN player - http://www.videolan.org/?
>>
>> They have versions for Mac and various Linux flavors.
>
> Oh yes - excellent tool, I use it heavily myself - especially for
> playing .wmv video files.
> But that does not deal with the DRM problem.  If the audio  
> subscription
> resources provided files which these tools could use then they  
> might be
> a solution.  But DRM severly limits opportunities and in this case,
> paves over the playground.
>
> -- 
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> Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library
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