I have an interest in the US Civil War and want to buy a couple of DVDs from the States. The site says the DVDs are pc only not Mac. Given I (think) can run/read other pc stuff on my Apple why can't I run these DVDs? Put another way- any ideas what I can do to enable me to run the DVDs please.
John Mc
South Australia
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
maybe you could use a program to convert the file types to mac.
Thanks mate-how can I do that?
it depends on the file format. different programs convert different types of files, here is an example: http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm
Thanks for the prompt response. Problem is I won't know if it'll work until I have bought and had them mailed to me.
i would not order them until I was able to confirm they would run on a mac.
Thanks. I guess it's the old chicken and egg thing. Looks like I can't get the DVDs-such is life.
If you don't mind, could you provide me with the Internet link, URL, to the DVDs and I'll investigate for you. I also have a friend who loves that subject.
The site is
It's a US based mob and their material is really useful.
Cheers
John Mc
Your link goes nowhere. Do you mean http://civilwaranimated.com/ ?
Those are Flash videos and the examples on the web pages play fine for me.
If their DVDs are video DVDs in the standard mpeg2 format they will play anywhere. If they are DVD ROMs made on a Windows PC they may not. It may be possible to import the contents to your desktop and convert them to a format a Mac can use, for example by using VLC for playback, but only experimentation will tell!
If you don't already know about VLC:
Cheers Klaus 1-after all your work I guess I'm still at the chicken and egg thing. But your efforts are much apreicated
I went further and checked out the specs of the Videos they are selling on that site. It specifically mentions that the CD is PC only. I am assuming it's a CD-ROM. This also means that it's probably not a DVD and really a CD-ROM.
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Thanks mate. I contacted the owner, James Cagney (true!) by email and he confirmed they were CDs-so I guess that's that?
John Mc
Running pc dvds on my Apple
