Streaming WMV in htaccess Protected Directories

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Originally Posted by Cleo

MAC means Media Access Control.

Mac is the computers that Mac users love and non Mac users find annoying.

No Macs do not play wmv files as they are shipped. They ship with QuickTime which plays lots of stuff but not wmv files. Mac users will be sent off to find the plug-in to play wmv at which time they will usually find the obsolete program called Windows Media Player for Mac or if they are lucky will find the free version of the QuickTime plugin Flip4Mac, now owned by Microsoft, after looking beyond the not for free versions of Flip4Mac.

Now that your Mac user has, hopefully, installed Flip4Mac wmv files may play correctly in the built-in browser Safari or they may need to download FireFox and configure it to use the Flip4Mac plugin.

Still there is some stuff that will only play in, the now obsolete, Windows Media Player for Mac or just not at all on a Mac at all.

Last month 4.3% of FoxyAngel's members were Mac users and 3.1% were using Safari.

Cleo,

MAC is short for Macintosh.

So you chose mpg format to satisfy 4.3% of your users.

I can't see the logic in making 95.7% of your users suffer by downloading 30% more data than they need too by using mpg over wmv. (not to mention the extra b/w you would save)

I'm sure MAC users run into this all the time. They expect to jump thru hoops by now. I'd suggest to them pay 10bucks for flip4mac or offer both wmv and mpg.