Solving the Loading Bar Disappearance While Playing .wmv Files in Snow Leopard

Many would have noticed after you upgrade your Mac OS to Snow Leopard, whenever you play .wmv files, the pre-loading bar disappeared and the movie start playing immediately. May sound good for some people, but to most people they will have trouble forwarding the movie if they want to skip certain sections. This is because the movie is not loaded and it takes a very long time to load the whole movie.

Here is a way to solve this problem and bring back the pre-loading bar.

1. Upgrade your Flip4Mac to the latest version, at the time of writing it is 2.3.0.14.

2. Go to System Preferences.

3. Select the Flip4Mac icon.

4. Select the Player tab, then select Advance.

5. A small window will appear to ask you to add applications. In this window, add Quicktime X or Quicktime 7.

6. Problem solved, now you can sit back and watch .wmv file like the way it was before.

Joining files in Snow Leopard

Step1: Launch Terminal.app

Step2: type cd ~/downloads (or whatever the name of the folder your files are)

Step3: type ls (this is to show all the files in that folder)

Step4: type cat filename.avi.001 filename.avi.002 filename.avi.003 filename.avi.004 > filename.avi

Then wait for it to join the files, when it is finished, the cursor in the terminal will start to blink again like the way when you start it.