WMV is a multimedia container format that is used to encode the audio and video streams. This is a standard format which is developed by Microsoft Corporation. It is inherently supported by the operating system Windows Media Player (Windows Media Player), because this format and the platform are both developed by the same organization. WMV is designed to play audio and video content without using any codec on the Windows platform. Mac OS is a product of Apple Computers is a competitor to the Microsoft Windows platform. WMV files contain the restrictions applied by the developers not to make good through the platform. It includes cross-platform incompatibility.
Be a regular Internet user from any platform, you can have the numbers of the downloaded files are in WMV format. The reason is that Windows is generally used platform by millions of users who often share these videos in WMV format because the format is supported. If you are a Mac user, and you download these WMV files from different sites, and want to play these files on the use of Mac media player quick time, you can not read these files as QuickTime Media Player does not recognize not this format and can not make the audio and video content.
There are a number of options to play WMV on Mac, as you can install a media player that recognizes and plays these files without any conflict as VLC media player or Windows Media Player, but this is a very limited application playing different video formats. These applications can cause additional overhead for the computer or for users too. It can take up processing resources and storage of the computer and may need additional time to install and manage these videos.
To play WMV on Mac, you need to convert your videos to the format supported video format such as MOV. MOV is a container format that is developed by Apple and is inherently supported by the media player for Mac Quick Time. Convert videos to WMV MOV is the most appropriate solution to play these video formats supported or not recognized on the Mac operating system. It is also a reasonable solution because all Mac applications support and multimedia player to play videos MOV easily. It is a solution to manage the complexity of WMV and to overcome compatibility issues files on the Mac operating system.
