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QuickTime's smart enough to work out that it's something else, based on the content of the file, not the extension, and since Flip4Mac has enabled it to play this type of content, your WMV movie now works. QuickTime doesn't support WMV files, so PowerPoint Mac won't even allow you to insert them normally.īy changing the file's extension, you make PowerPoint think that it's a QuickTime movie, even though it's not.

Instead, it depends on the system software (QuickTime on Mac, Windows Media Player or the older MCI Media Player on Windows) to play movies. PowerPoint actually can't play movie files at all, either on Mac or PC. On Windows PCs, it will play in Windows Media Player and similar software, but it's not natively supported on Macs, just as Quicktime Movie (MOV) files aren't natively supported on Windows PCs. WMV is primarily a Windows movie file format. MOV so PowerPoint thinks it's a QuickTime movie instead of a WMV. If you want to play WMV files, it can play WMV files directly without converting the format. It compresses large files and converts multiple files in a very fast speed. Besides, it also supports converting WMV to MP4 with ease. Since PowerPoint still thinks that WMVs aren't usable, you have to cheat a bit. As an open-source and free media player, VLC Media Player is able to play most of the multimedia files including WMV.

Install Flip4Mac, which lets QuickTime play. You try to insert a WMV movie into your Mac PowerPoint presentation using the Insert, Movie, From File command or the Movie toolbar, but PowerPoint won't let you select a WMV movie.