[MPlayer-advusers] wmv9 for mac?

[compn]

On Thu, 05 May 2005 17:05:05 -0400
Alexander Strange <astrange at ithinksw.com> wrote:

> 
> On May 5, 2005, at 3:46 PM, compn wrote:
> 
> > has anyone checked to see if the wmv9 codecs for mac are seperate  
> > form the binary
> > or even not, checked to see if they can be used with mplayer?
> >
> > http://www.flip4mac.com/downloads/wmv_player/Flip4Mac%20WMV%20Player 
> > %201.0.zip
> > http://www.flip4mac.com/buy.htm
> > for a trial player that should have the wmv codec.
> >
> 
> It's just a QuickTime codec (although the free version does something  
> to prevent it from working outside QT Player). The qtvideo decoder  
> ought to load it if it's fixed up.

thank you for checking.

> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/ 
> > osx/default.aspx
> > for wmp9 for mac, which says it can play all of the wma9/wmv9 stuff.
> 
> This decoder is so slow as to be useless.

what about wma9, wmavoice, wmalossless and possibly other codecs included?
how slow? wouldnt it be useful anyways at least for encoding?