- As known to all, Microsoft discontinued Windows Media Player for Mac way back in 2006, so users have to find another way to play WMV on Mac (macOS High Sierra). VLC is a famous media player which can play most video, however, play WMVwith VLC on Mac (macOS High Sierra) will be a challenge. You will fail to play WMV on VLC on Mac directly.
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Posted by Candice Liu to 4K, Video Converter | Updated on Dec 26, 2019
WMV is the local video format for Windows, you can play WMV on VLC player smoothly. However, when you combine VLC media player with WMV format on Mac operating system, including the latest on macOS (High)Sierra, it's not as smooth as Windows due to various reasons.
'Can VLC play 4k ultra HD video? New to VLC & love its many options, however it doesn't start then becomes very choppy in playing 4K. No problem with other players so nothing wrong with my system or CPU. Would welcome any advice. Thanks.' - andylolly
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'I have been trying to watch 4K files on VLC, they play the sound but no video, windows media player plays the video but no sound, MPC and Power dvd play the videos with sound no problem, I have tried nightly VLC and there is no option for gpu accelerated on my settings. when will this problem be fixed, and my graphics card is a GTX 1060 Rog strixx edition.' - kmj523
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As the free and open source cross-platform media player, VLC is available to play multimedia files like DVD, CD, various online streaming videos as well as 4K videos since 2013. However, VLC video playback problems happen over and over, for eaxample, VLC won't play MKV or MP4, video lagging on VLC, VLC subtitle delay, video audio out of sync etc. And here we're talking about VLC not playing 4k problem. It's really frustrated to find your 4K choppy, stutter or lag during playback on VLC. So how to play 4K on VLC smoothly? You're suggested to enable GPU hardware accelerate decoding in VLC, compress 4K video to lower resolution, or switch to a VLC aternative.