Third Party Codecs on Windows? (was: WMV Support)

Subject: Third Party Codecs on Windows? (was: WMV Support)

From: Mark Ribau <email@hidden>

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:20:27 -0400

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Previously I've added codecs to my Windows XP machine (such as DivX and XviD). Windows Media Player picked up the codecs fine (by design) and played those types of movie files fine, and QuickTime Player /recognized/ the movie files were valid movies but would either not play the information or appear to 'freeze' as it tried to draw the first frame. Is there any way to have QuickTime accept third party codecs on Windows?

Ashok Thirumurthi wrote:

Dear QuickTime,

With QuickTime on Windows, I noticed that NewMovieFromFile returns noMovieFound for WMV formats. QuickTime player makes it clear that this formats isn't supported out of the box. Can I rely on noMovieFound to identify unsupported formats?

Can users install third-party codecs to support playback of this movie format? Are there other formats supported by RealPlayer or Media Player that fall into the same category? Does this change with QuickTime 7.0?

Basically, what I want is the equivalent of http://www.wm4mac.com/wmv.htm for Windows...

Thanks in advance,

- Ashok Thirumurthi
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