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On 4/3/14, 12:56 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:24:20 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/3/14, 12:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:37:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/2/2014 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:23 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.

The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

Great app. I use it at work to produce training videos. Using a headset with a mic to record my voice, I capture my PC's display while talking through PP slides, web configuration pages, and operating our product. Then I output them in mp4 format to put on our internal document portal and our customer support web page.

If that is all you are doing, my grand daughter does that in Movie
Maker and exports in WMV.

Not all Mac users can view wmv files. I think that's why YouTube
converts any file format that you upload to Flash.

I bet Harry's Apple plays WMVs. There is nothing it can't do.

BTW I thought Apple didn't like Flash either. Is that just the mobile
devices?

VLC plays *.WMV files just fine on a Mac. I don't what else on a Mac
will play them. I had to do a file search to see if I even had a *.WMV
file. I found two. When I clicked on one, VLC popped up and played it.

As I said earlier, VLC plays damned near anything.

Being open source, I suppose there is a version that will run on
anything. I know it is OK on /95 and Linux. Now I know it also runs on
Apple.

Apparently there's another way, too:

" Microsoft does not have a plan to upgrade windows media player 9,
however, Microsoft did offer an alternative for Mac users: Windows Media
Components for QuickTime Flip4Mac, which is developed by Telestream.
This player supports high-definition playback. With this QuickTime
component, you can play both WMV and WMA files directly using QuickTime
Player and watch streamed WMV videos. Also, is a great player for WMV
videos on Mac OS X version 10.4 or later."

I don't use QuickTime, but I presume this solution also works.