FYI the way I use to do that is Control click/Get Info and use the File name and Extension field. MPlayerX will play the slides LARGE by default, but only if you make a small change to the file extension: from.

VLC does not play the slides, only the audio. MPlayerX, an aftermarket and small mimic of Quicktime, similar to VLC Media Player. If I have maligned any Apple products, please correct me.

It has taken me a year to find the solution and I want to share it. Also iTunes does play the slides, but only as a thumbnail and is sensitive-it disappears if you do anything. However Qucktime does not condescend to play my lectures or any of my movies and seems to be set up only to play purchesed movies from Apple. I have a lot of lectures on online courses coming as m4a, with slides that play automatically with the teachers lecture. M4a is native to Mac, iTunes and should play in Quicktime, but seems to be an orphaned file type and is poorly supported. Online courses, language courses use them and just basically recommend iTunes to play them. M4A files have aac audio content and mpeg ll video content as stills, or slides that come in on time markers. I have all my music in Apple Lossless and shared between iTunes, WMP and even Microsoft Media Center. As a result it can be played, can be put in the correct section and WMP even automatically recognises the meta-tags including embedded album artwork! Unfortunately in their stupidity, Microsoft even though they are the same file extension, file format, and tag format and even though both can be played by WMP with this directshow filter, WMP specifically checks to see if it is Apple Lossless and then puts it in 'other' instead of 'music'.įortunately a developer has written a plugin for WMP to trick it to thinking Apple Lossless is the same as AAC and it then ends up in music as desired. However it is possible to install a directshow filter which can play both in WMP.

Windows Media Player since Windows7 has supported AAC as standard but still does not support Apple Lossless as standard. ALAC which as its name suggests is a lossless format.īoth use the same file extension and tag format. m4a can be AAC (lossey) or Apple Lossless aka.

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