comments from another website regarding WM9 for Mac ....

[BernieR]

Hello,

This was posted by someone who has experience with the DVD forum and future DVD-HD possibilities and works for M$:



" 3. Our Mac player is produced to support our general streaming business which is made up of SD and lower resolution images. We do fair amount of optimization for PowerPC but not nearly as much as what we do for Intel. This is not because we don't want to. In one case, we get help from top notch Intel engineers, and have deep knowledge of the a/v pipleline of the OS. In case of the Mac, Apple won't even say hello to us let alone help. Not that I blame them but the end of the day, we just can't produce as a good a player as we can on Windows if the principal vendor doesn’t want to it to begin with. As others have stated though, this is not the fault of the codec, but the practical situation. In addition, WMV requires about 60% more CPU than MPEG-2 so comparing the two doesn’t make much sense.

[SERBIAN]

Im on the Apple side for this matter...Let them have it their WM9 player...Very bad format, in my opinion...