Some WMVs taken ages to load, if at all

[markwm]

I have a bunch of WMVs that I'm trying to play in quicktime, using the latest Flip4Mac in Tiger.

Sometimes I can get them to play fine, the problem is they take like 30 seconds to load up. Other times quicktime to hangs and I have to force quit.

Looking at the stream info, video is WMV3 and audio is wma2. They don't even play thaat great in VLC, they load up fine but pausing and scrubbing causing the video to hang often while the audio kepts playing.

Any ideas? they play perfectly in WMP on XP.

[terryj]

of course they play fine in WMP on XP...the codec is native
for that OS.

My simple answer: Convert them from WMV on the XP
using WMP to AVI or MPEG-4, Then you can play on the mac.

My long answer, in regards to WMV3 files:
VLC 0.86 supports WMV3
via use of ffmpeg project, but not Flip4Mac
and according to what I 've seen in testing in F4M, there are odd combinations of codecs used within WMVs that can cause
Flip4Mac to stall, or even crash, playback in QT.

[Antoniola]

Terryj has good info.....I'd try to export the content with Flip4Mac. The player is a full functioning trial for the paid version, but with limitations.

It's true that some WMV content has weid codec stuff underneath that wrapper, and won't stream or play back successfully. If you could upload a small sample, or have an address where it's streaming, we could try it and see if it does the same thing. Telestream is pretty good at updating to make sites compatible, but they have to be somewhat high profile in order for them to justify the effort.

I have a bunch of WMVs that I'm trying to play in quicktime, using the latest Flip4Mac in Tiger.

Sometimes I can get them to play fine, the problem is they take like 30 seconds to load up. Other times quicktime to hangs and I have to force quit.

Looking at the stream info, video is WMV3 and audio is wma2. They don't even play thaat great in VLC, they load up fine but pausing and scrubbing causing the video to hang often while the audio kepts playing.

Any ideas? they play perfectly in WMP on XP.