| Situation | Recommended Player | Reason |
|-----------|-------------------|--------|
| Quick preview of WMV | VLC (desktop) | Handles corrupted streams gracefully and can generate thumbnails (--snapshot). |
| Streaming to multiple devices | Plex Media Server (with transcoding) | Plex will automatically convert WMV on‑the‑fly to a client‑friendly format. |
| Mobile (iOS/Android) access | Infuse (iOS) or MX Player (Android) after conversion to MP4 | WMV support on mobile is limited; MP4 works universally. |
| Command‑line batch processing | ffplay with -autoexit | Useful for sanity‑checking a list of files via a script. |
recollindex -c /home/user/.recoll -r /mnt/oldjecom_raw