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Old August 18th, 2005, 06:47 PM
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How to watch .vid and wmv

does any body knows how,
on tiger
I got the divx plugging but still not working.
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Old August 18th, 2005, 08:06 PM
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For wmvs, you can download Windows Media Player and play them with that, or buy Flip4Mac's WMV decoder ($9.99) so you can play them with QuickTime.

For .vid, I'm not quite sure. I've never seen a .vid file. My advice is to try VLC, and maybe Windows Media Player (I assume you've already tried QuickTime Player, right?).

Hope this helps.
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Old August 18th, 2005, 08:20 PM
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I've never seen a VID file either, but I'd recommend you try out VLC, Windows Media Player, and MPlayer.
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cool
I like this
I am comming from linux, and use unix with mac , is so diferrent, cool
so far mac are nice.
still missing open source tools like kate, gftp,
but tx any way
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Old August 18th, 2005, 10:33 PM
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You can get Kate to run on Mac by selecting it through Fink. See http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/search.php?summary=kate

Ditto for gftp: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/search.php?summary=gftp

Fink is a program that makes it easy to select Unix packages and install them. It is closely related to the Debian package management system.
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