hi am trying to play a wimp file on my mac its not working. i am downloading a program called flip4mac but it says nothing about playing the extension.wimp .... please help i have t watch this video for school asap!!!!! i have mystate board licensing test on wed and i need to watch it today!!!!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
No video or audio file from Windows that I know of uses the extension ".wimp". Not even Microsoft's Windows Media Player uses that extension; everything will be either ".WMV" or ".WMA". If you can tell us from where you got this file so we can take a look at it, we might be able to help you play it. Otherwise, you'll probably need to get more information on the format from whoever created and/or provided the file.
Or do you mean that it's a .WLMP file? If so, that's probably a Windows Live Movie Maker project, and if so can't be played on a Mac. The provider needs to save the movie as .WMV or another standard format (preferably MPEG-4 or H.264).
Regards.
Actually, this is a file that frequently accompanies video files. (.wimp) merely stands for 'Microsoft Windows Icon Palette'. How they got .wimp out of that, I don't know. But you can't do anything with that file, it is just a style that comes with the email. If there is no video file attached (and this happens a lot) then there was a failure on the sender's side. Email them back and ask for a different format, .mp4 is the best, .wmv will work, and if you are desperate .avi is also an option.
how do i play a "wimp" file on my mac
