Commons:Media help/Macintosh
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
To play sound and video files in Macintosh computers
Requirements
To play sound files in Ogg Vorbis and video files in Ogg Theora on a Mac computer, you only need to download and install one of the following players.
- MPlayer OS X
Go to this website and click Download Now (7,7 MB).
Extract the downloaded Zip archive in your application folder.
- VLC media player
Go to this website and choose one of the links listed under OS X version (13 MB; 7,3 MB). Once you have downloaded the disc-image, open it and it will appear as a virtual disc on your Desktop. From the disc copy VLC.app to your Applications folder. Now you can play the sound and video files from Commons.
- QuickTime
Alternatively, you can download Xiph QuickTime Components to play directly sound files in Ogg Vorbis with Quicktime Player or with your browser. Install the XiphQT component into /Library/Quicktime folder, then restart your browser so it can play Ogg Vorbis files.
Do you have questions, or do you encounter problems? Please ask here.
