Andrew Su

quicktime. whatever came with tiger - Andrew Su

Try getting VLC Player - Deepak

7.5.5, also downloaded the codec from techsmith http://www.techsmith.com/downl... - Andrew Su

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - Deepak

thanks, will try... I assume this won't help me play videos within powerpoint? - Andrew Su

nice, vlc does the trick. (can I still grumble that the default mac player doesn't work?) on to test ppt.. - Andrew Su

Haven't tried that part - Deepak

nope, ppt defaults to using QT... bummer... - Andrew Su

@Andrew You can transcode it with another program like MPlayer (MEncoder) or FFmpeg to something Quicktime will play. If the file's within reasonable size I can help you with that. - Chris Lasher

thanks for the pointers Chris. I'm downloading now and will try to give it a shot. - Andrew Su

... and not to fan the flames, but I guess I'm a bit frustrated/disappointed. The #1 reason to go mac that I heard was "it just works" (where the most often cited example is external projectors, which I never really had a problem with). anyway, the mac just hasn't been as seamless as I'd hoped... learning curve I guess... - Andrew Su