Hello all you mac maya users,

Since a lot of the tutorials are in wmv or divX encoded this will give you a lot of trouble on the mac. The wmv is supported through windows media player but the used soundcodec in some of the tuts. is not. Since there is no really workaround here it's a pain in the ass. The only thing is to try play the movie under OS 9.2.2 but it will still leave you with sound/ video not streaming.
•• However the workaround is: Let someone with a PC convert the movie through moviemaker into a .mov or .mpeg

On the divX the following. Downloading the divX plug for quicktime does not garantee a smooth playback. However there is a freeware player called 'Mplayer' that does the trick. With this player you don't need any codec to play .avi with divX encoded.

You can download the Mplayer through https://www.versiontracker.com
search for 'Mplayer'

Hopes this helps you out and I hope that the makers of the tutorials will keep in mind that there are some of us that work on a mac and also use MAYA. So please if you make a video in .wmv, please use standard compression tools and don't use the ACELP.NET audio codec. It's already a pain that most of the mel script and plugins don't work under OSX.

Greetings Sebastian