Hello, my forum searches resulted in issues with .WMVs, but I couldn't find anything that directly discussed .AVIs that were WMV9-encoded. If there is another topic that does deal with this, I'll be more than happy to close this.
In the past, I had collected some AVIs that I was unable to play in Quicktime 6.5.2 (well, I could open them, but it had major issues with playing the video due to the "required compressor" not being found and would always crash very soon after starting), so I left them alone until recently when I rediscovered them and tried once again to get them working. The problem seemed to be that they were WMV9-encoded, and whether I tried it in QT or VLC, the video would never work and it would always crash.
None of the programs I've used have worked, and most of the answers I found had to do with using Windows to convert (which... can be done, but would require some help from friends and a decent wait). So... is there any relatively simple method to either convert these AVIs or get them to work some other way, on a Mac? I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.7, on a iMac G5, if that would help.
Sorry for the big write-up. Thanks a lot!
In the past, I had collected some AVIs that I was unable to play in Quicktime 6.5.2 (well, I could open them, but it had major issues with playing the video due to the "required compressor" not being found and would always crash very soon after starting), so I left them alone until recently when I rediscovered them and tried once again to get them working. The problem seemed to be that they were WMV9-encoded, and whether I tried it in QT or VLC, the video would never work and it would always crash.
None of the programs I've used have worked, and most of the answers I found had to do with using Windows to convert (which... can be done, but would require some help from friends and a decent wait). So... is there any relatively simple method to either convert these AVIs or get them to work some other way, on a Mac? I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.7, on a iMac G5, if that would help.
Sorry for the big write-up. Thanks a lot!