best option for WMV encoding on a Mac

[Vincent Boileau]

If you have a PC available, create an intermediate file (I like ProResHQ) and move it over to the PC.

Use Microsoft Expression Encoder, which has a free option and is also extraordinarily powerful offering multipass, varied levels of VC-1 complexity, smart resizing, motion estimation and more.

If you love FREE as much as I do, this is a great solution.

-Vince

[Craig Seeman]

Wow is this thread old. 4 years later someone posts and a year after that another post.

There’s no need to have a separate Windows computer. Parallels with Windows 7 and Microsoft Expression Encoder on it is just drag and drop. If you want to take full advantage of the computer’s resources also use Bootcamp so you can boot into a complete Windows system.

My new Intel Macs get the Parallels and Bootcamp “treatment” for this and related reasons.

[Victor Copp]

There are two way:

One is using VLC which is a free WMV player.

The other is using a professional WMV player like:https://faasoft.com/articles/play-wmv-on-mac.html

[Marc Johnson]

i recommend iDealshare VideoGo which has both Mac and Windows version and support directly play or convert all kinds of video files like wmv, avi, mp4, mov, mkv, vob, mxf, mts, rmvb, mod, avchd, tod, flv and etc

Mac version at https://www.idealshare.net/video-converter-mac.html
Windows version at https://www.idealshare.net/video-converter.html

[Craig Seeman]

Flip4Mac encodes WMV9 specifically and is distributed by Microsoft for Mac WMV9 encoding.
Many other encoders are only doing WMV8 or earlier encodes.