How to play WMV files on the Mac media player applications

WMV or Windows Media Video is the container format for the videos. A container format is always necessary for playing the audio, video, and subtitle streams into a synchronized format. WMV is a featured container format that can contain audio and video streams together in the single file. Windows is the most dominantly used platform worldwide because of the features and ease of use that it provides to the computer users to negotiate with the computer hardware in accomplishing the desired tasks or the required tasks. An operating system is the essential for the computer system because it is the responsible entity for making interaction between customers and the computer hardware. An operating system is also known as system software. Windows operating system is a powerful system software that provides a graphical user interface that are a virtual platform for the system prospective that manages the storage and other implementations in a different way that is not visible to the user. Windows operating system is developed by the Microsoft Corporation that is featured platform for the users; it is highly interacting and efficient performer software on behalf of the user. It provides numbers of the utility programs or commonly known as application software. An application is the special purpose utility program that is developed to perform a specific task on the system software or operating system. Windows media player is also one of the featured provided application software utilities. It is a specially designed for playing the multimedia contents like audio and videos. WMV is a specially designed container format for playing the videos on the windows media player application without any compatibility issue. As Window operating system is the most widely used platform for the computer users, and they share same videos on the internet, so most of the videos that you can find on the World Wide Web are in WMV format, or the videos that are being shared by your friends. To play these WMV videos on the Mac QuickTime media player, you are required to convert WMV to MOV Mac format because WMV files cannot be played using this video format. WMV format includes some limitations in playing cross the platform. This cross platform compatibility issue is the real obstacle in playing WMV videos on Mac operating system.

Video conversion is the necessary task to perform in playing the videos on the QuickTime media player app. The conversion of the videos from WMV to MOV Mac format can easily be performed via installing a video convertor tool for the Mac operating system. A convertor tool is the utility program that decodes the codec of the source format and re-encodes the videos using MOV codec. This will make the video streams interpretable for the media player application.

Apple Mac video convertor is the most appropriate video convertor tool that can convert WMV to MOV Mac format. After conversion of your videos, you can play and edit your favorite videos using Mac default applications.

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