Slightly OT: WVM for Mac

mjroddy wrote on 1/14/2005, 10:49 AM
I'm a bit confused - a normal state for me, really.
I directed a friend who uses Mac to watch a vid from Cheinworks' site (the one from Japan)(his wife is Japanese, so I thought it would bring a touch of Home to her). They were able to watch it just fine. Yet, when he tries to watch a WMV that *I* create, he tells me it comes across as jibberish - and I don't think he's talking about the content.
What might I be doing incorrectly that Mac user's can't watch my Window's Media 9 files rendered in Vegas5?
Thank you.

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B_JM wrote on 1/14/2005, 12:27 PM
if i make any wmv with windows movie maker or squeeze or procoder , mac users have no problem ..

i did a bunch on vegas and we couldnt read them on SOME macs -- i fooled around with some settings and then it worked -- but dont know what i changed (it might be the audio codec) ...


macs had latest wmv installed ..


never did pin it down --
epirb wrote on 1/14/2005, 2:01 PM
or you could try:Window Media Player for Mac
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia
B_JM wrote on 1/14/2005, 4:19 PM
didnt work -- plus it screwed up some things on the macs..
mjroddy wrote on 1/14/2005, 4:24 PM
epirb, are you saying *I* should try that link? I would have thought that encoding from Vegas as a Windows Media 9 file would mean that folk on the Mac could read it if they had updated their palyer with the WM9 codecs.
As mentioned, he could watch the vid on Cheinworks site, so I'm not clear why he couldn't see the one I made. B_JM said that there is some "random" setting that he found to make thing work. I guess this is the thing I'm looking for. I really don't want to try to encode it in Procoder, since it's a 10 minute file and that translates to a 2.5 gig DV-AVI. I just want MAC users to have access to the vid. So right now I'm rendering a MOV that I am sure will work for those not fortunate enough to have a PC and Vegas.
dms wrote on 1/14/2005, 8:18 PM
if you are serving from a http server, and if by 'jibberish' you mean garbage random text in a browser, then the server might not be providing the correct MIME type for the wmv file.

For an apache server, you'll need something like:
"video/x-ms-wmv wmv"
in the .htaccess file for the server or in the root of the web directory.

If you are using IIS, there is something similar. Google for specifics...