playing videos in MSS2 format

**MisterMe** · November 22nd, 2008, 07:42 AM

The paid version of Flip4Mac is not about access to extra codecs. It is about the ability to transcode video to WMV content.

**Satcomer** · November 22nd, 2008, 03:06 PM

Yea i have the Flip4Mac Studio and it only hears audio with no video.

**MisterMe** · November 22nd, 2008, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Satcomer

Yea i have the Flip4Mac Studio and it only hears audio with no video.

This is a classic symptom of an unsupported WMV codec.

**Waista** · January 2nd, 2009, 10:32 PM

Here's the solution I came up with for playing MSS2 files. Intel Macbook. OS10.5.6.

I have mplayer intalled via macports. http://www.macports.org/

Then grab the Windows-All dlls from the codecs directory on Mplayer's site. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/

Download and unzip. Copy the contents of the windows-all-xxxxxxxx folder to the macports directory: /opt/local/lib/codecs/

You may have to make the `codecs' directory.

Now I suspect the only dll that matters is wmsdmod.dll. So You can copy that one _only_ and it may play just fine.

I'm still having trouble with the colourspace tho. You'll see what I mean when you play a video. If anyone can figure out how to fix this, please let me know!

**Waista** · January 2nd, 2009, 10:45 PM

Okay, fix the colourspace problem by asking mplayer to use the `quartz' video out module instead of the `macosx' video out module.

mplayer -vo quartz

**Waista** · January 2nd, 2009, 10:58 PM

If you have the Mplayer application rather than the macports mplayer, install the Windows-All ddls into /usr/lib/win32/

You'll have to create the win32 directory.

If you have both, just link the macports directory to /usr/lib/win32/

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s /opt/local/lib/codecs/ ./win32

You'll probably have to use `sudo' for the link command.

In the Mplayer application, go to preferences to change the video out module to `quartz' to fix the colourspace problem.

**123walter** · May 4th, 2009, 02:23 PM

I would buy the upgrade if I thought it would work. Has anyone tried it.? Its funny but I took a program called VSO convertx2dvd and made DVDs out of a bunch of those wmvs and then played them on my macbookPro. A lotta trouble I know, but it was a fairly costly set of lessons, and I dont have a win based laptop.Also my Ubuntu desktop wont play them either. So I had given up hope of ever viewing them any other way except to convert to DVS on my wifes Windows desktop.

**guiju** · July 25th, 2009, 02:18 PM

Hi Waista,

thank you so much for the tips. Took me a bit of time since I'm new to MacOS but it now works both with port and without!

the MacOS version seems to crash quite easily though. Do you experience the same thing?

cheers

Originally Posted by Waista

If you have the Mplayer application rather than the macports mplayer, install the Windows-All ddls into /usr/lib/win32/

You'll have to create the win32 directory.

If you have both, just link the macports directory to /usr/lib/win32/

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s /opt/local/lib/codecs/ ./win32

You'll probably have to use `sudo' for the link command.

In the Mplayer application, go to preferences to change the video out module to `quartz' to fix the colourspace problem.