PING - MAC Users .. Help needed

DeToxRox · 01-13-2009, 11:52 AM

Okay, my girlfriend has a Mac and needs to access some videos for the Nursing Program at her scool. Problem is the files are .wma's but they only open up when you click the link. You can't c/p a specific link and open it in Windows Media Player 9 for Mac, which she has, so it says that she cannot open the files.

Is there a work around here or did the school screw up royally?

https://xxx.xxx.edu/section/content/...D8EEAD530F24A6

Is what comes comes up when you c/p the link

Anyone with any idea?

Thanks

samifan24 · 01-13-2009, 12:02 PM

I'd try either Flip4Mac (get the free version) of the swiss army knife of video playback, VLC.

johnnyshaka · 01-13-2009, 12:22 PM

VLC gets my vote.

DeToxRox · 01-13-2009, 12:25 PM

I tried a test by pasting that link in VLC and it says not found.

samifan24 · 01-13-2009, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DeToxRox

I tried a test by pasting that link in VLC and it says not found.

Why don't you just download the videos and then try to play them? I think part of the problem may be that you're trying to stream them off the website.

DeToxRox · 01-13-2009, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samifan24

Why don't you just download the videos and then try to play them? I think part of the problem may be that you're trying to stream them off the website.

That's the thing .. I am not even seeing a way to download them. It's like they omly open up in the website.

JediKooter · 01-13-2009, 03:40 PM

Is iMovie on her machine? If it is, see if it will import into iMovie and she may be able to watch them there.

Right click on the video and see if it lets you save link or something like that.

Does her school have a public web URL someone can access instead of the https one?

samifan24 · 01-13-2009, 08:28 PM

Try playing around with the given URL and see if you can "back up" into the directory and see where all the movie files are saved. You should probably be able to download them once you find them.

01-13-2009, 12:02 PM	#2
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JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	Is iMovie on her machine? If it is, see if it will import into iMovie and she may be able to watch them there. Right click on the video and see if it lets you save link or something like that. Does her school have a public web URL someone can access instead of the https one? __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4 Last edited by JediKooter : 01-13-2009 at 03:42 PM.

01-13-2009, 08:28 PM	#8
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	Try playing around with the given URL and see if you can "back up" into the directory and see where all the movie files are saved. You should probably be able to download them once you find them. __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

01-13-2009, 12:22 PM	#3
johnnyshaka College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Edmonton, AB	VLC gets my vote.

01-13-2009, 12:25 PM	#4
DeToxRox Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Michigan	I tried a test by pasting that link in VLC and it says not found.

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