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embeded windows media player files...?

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johnrbell

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Dec 19, 2006
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ok, so if i goto a site with an embeded windows media player file, it woudnt play. so i downloaded wmp and flip4mac.

flip4mac says it cant play them, so then i have to load them externally.
very lame.

any ideas?
 
not that this will necessarily fix your problem, but Perian is recommended by many to help fill in the gaps.
 
its a blackbook, with safari, its any site with an embeded windows media player file.

i removed WMP and flip4mac, and installed perian. now it just gives me a popup saying to goto microsofts page to get the player. :(
 
johnrbell said:
ok, so if i goto a site with an embeded windows media player file, it woudnt play. so i downloaded wmp and flip4mac.

flip4mac says it cant play them, so then i have to load them externally.
very lame.

any ideas?
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Many sites are moving to WMP v10 streams with DRM. I've found nothing that can play them.

Other times, Firefox or Safari will give me grief trying to play a given file, but Opera will work just fine.
 
johnrbell said:
are you suggesting i switch to opera to fix the problem?
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No.

Firefox 1.5x is my primary browser, but occasionally, I have similar issues as you described.

In those cases, I use another browser. For streaming media, if neither FF or Safari work, Opera almost always does.

If it won't play the file within it's own window, Opera 9 still uses the 'old' way of caching internet content - individual files - so sometime I can load a page, then grab the file in question from the Opera cache folder, and play/open it at the finder level instead of through an internet plugin.


Almost always does, because if the problem is the site is streaming a WMV 10/DRM file,
Opera can't 'fix' that - there's nothing (that I am aware of) that will play those on a Mac.
 
aj98 said:
No.

Firefox 1.5x is my primary browser, but occasionally, I have similar issues as you described.

In those cases, I use another browser. For streaming media, if neither FF or Safari work, Opera almost always does.

If it won't play the file within it's own window, Opera 9 still uses the 'old' way of caching internet content - individual files - so sometime I can load a page, then grab the file in question from the Opera cache folder, and play/open it at the finder level instead of through an internet plugin.


Almost always does, because if the problem is the site is streaming a WMV 10/DRM file,
Opera can't 'fix' that - there's nothing (that I am aware of) that will play those on a Mac.
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boo.

ok, few more questions.

i tried opera, didnt work... no big deal.
to uninstall opera... do i just delete it out of the applications folder?
same for any other applications?
 
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