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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / May 2006Windows Media Player and Mac Os10.4.2
Have just upgraded my Mac to Os10.4.2 (Tiger) and now my previously working Windows Media Player is no longer working. I thought that maybe I needed to up date my WMP so I downloaded the latest player but to no avial! Has anyone else had this problem and if so, what did you do to fix it? Its very frustrating. I'm actually having the same problem, all of a sudden. It won't even allow me to run the installer! > Have just upgraded my Mac to Os10.4.2 (Tiger) and now my previously working > Windows Media Player is no longer working. I thought that maybe I needed to > up date my WMP so I downloaded the latest player but to no avial! > Has anyone else had this problem and if so, what did you do to fix it? > Its very frustrating. > I'm actually having the same problem, all of a sudden. It won't even allow > me to run the installer! You can either try to launch garageband at least once before you use WMP (as suggested by others in this group) or as Rob mentioned recently: > You may want to try the tip on the Apple web site -- see > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832 > > Rob Corentin  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire I've got a brand-new G5 running 10.4.2, new install of WMP 9, and when I try to open a stream URL, the audio stutters for a few seconds, then dies, and the stream never plays. I've tried launching GarageBand, that didn't help; tried uninstall, delete prefs, reinstall, that didn't help. Tried setting the MIDI default, that didn't help. It plays non-streaming media fine, just not live streams. Any clues out there for this problem? > It plays > non-streaming media fine, just not live streams. How fast is your internet access ?? Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Apologies to Corentin, but he's not in this ballpark. OBVIOUSLY, WMP 9 for Mac X+ is NOT compatible with Mac OS 10.4.2. Since I upgraded my Tiger, WMP has been useless. Microsoft wake up & get with the program! Make adjustments. Nix55 > Apologies to Corentin, but he's not in this ballpark. > > OBVIOUSLY, WMP 9 for Mac X+ is NOT compatible with Mac OS 10.4.2. I don't get it... If it works on my Mac with 10.4.2, how can you say it's incompatible ??? What do you mean I'm not in this ballpark?? > Since I upgraded my Tiger, WMP has been useless. > > Microsoft wake up & get with the program! Make adjustments. Did you try launching GarageBand ?? Did you try Rob's suggestion: > You may want to try the tip on the Apple web site -- see > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832 > > Rob I agree that considering how many people have reported problems after upgrading to Tiger, there must be an incompatibility with *some* Tiger configuration, but it's be interesting to fond out why some people are affected when others are. The MIDI settings in the system are a tempting explanation. Corrupted prefs and plists are also a rather common cause that might be triggered by the upgrade. As far as MS is concerned I desperately tried to find people who might be able to do something about it without any success whatsoever so far (just a quick reminder: I *DON'T* work for them). Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > > Apologies to Corentin, but he's not in this ballpark. > > > > OBVIOUSLY, WMP 9 for Mac X+ is NOT compatible with Mac OS 10.4.2. > > I don't get it... If it works on my Mac with 10.4.2, how can you say > it's incompatible ??? What do you mean I'm not in this ballpark?? Okay, you're in the stands after all. Sorry. It is mysterious that *some* Tiger OS seems to keep WMP running and others not. I can't use "garageband" because I don't have iLife. The MIDI settings are just as you said they should be. Could it be that I don't have a DVD player? What can one do about "corrupted prefs and plists"? I feel your pain with actually trying to speak to a real human from Microsoft. Makes me wonder if they've all been replaced by machines already. > > I don't get it... If it works on my Mac with 10.4.2, how can you say > > it's incompatible ??? What do you mean I'm not in this ballpark?? > > Okay, you're in the stands after all. :-D Yeepee :-) > Sorry. It is mysterious that *some* > Tiger OS seems to keep WMP running and others not. I can't use "garageband" > because I don't have iLife. The MIDI settings are just as you said they > should be. Could it be that I don't have a DVD player? I doubt that the DVD player would have anything to do with that. Garageband and MIDI are tempting explanations since they can both affect settings critical for audio and video output. > What can one do about > "corrupted prefs and plists"? Trash them. WMP will re-create them from scratch :-) > I feel your pain with actually trying to speak to a real human from > Microsoft. Makes me wonder if they've all been replaced by machines already. I've suspected for a long time that someone woke up one day and assign the task to create WMP for Mac to 2 WMP Windows developers. Once their task was considered done, they never ever looked back. Unfortunately, WMP for Mac is not developed by the MacBU :-( Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Thanks for accepting my apology, Corentin Cras-Méneur. I've got just one more question. Exactly WHERE can I find corrupted playlists & preferences, so I can trash them forthwith? Sorry for my ignorance. I drive the old iMac with a graphie see-through cover, G3, 600 MHz, & 256 MB SDRAM. Greg in northern Canada Hi Greg, > Thanks for accepting my apology, Corentin Cras-Méneur. I've got just one more > question. Exactly WHERE can I find corrupted playlists & preferences, so I > can trash them forthwith? :-) The FAQ says: > - delete the WMP preference files: > ~/Library/Preferences/Windows Media Player Prefs > ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.mediaplayer.plist > (~/ represents your user folder) These two files corrupt themselves fairly easely and prevent the app from working at all. Repairing Permissions on your drive (using Disk Utility) is also a very good thing to do. Depending on how you installed Tiger (clean install ?) you might want to reinstall WMP after all that spring cleaning since some elements of the app might have been deactivated in the process. > Sorry for my ignorance. I drive the old iMac with a graphie see-through > cover, G3, 600 MHz, & 256 MB SDRAM. > > Greg in northern Canada Don't worry, we're all learning something at some point anyway :-))) Corentin (in Saint Louis, MO, USA) WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > :-) > The FAQ says: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Repairing Permissions on your drive (using Disk Utility) is also a very > good thing to do. I can't believe this, but Sir Knight, Sir Corentin, you have indeed vanquished the dragon: It worked! It bloody well worked! WMP is again up & running. Someone give that knight a job at Microsoft! You are not only in the stands but in the centre of the arena now, with flowers coming down. (Or is that rain? Hope it ain't rain.) Shemales-from-hell here I come! ;-) Mucho appreciones docnixon@shaw.ca > I can't believe this, but Sir Knight, Sir Corentin, you have indeed > vanquished the dragon: It worked! It bloody well worked! WMP is again up & > running. Someone give that knight a job at Microsoft! :-D Well they already got me in their MVP program (for Office:Mac... WMP is not in the program :-\ ) :-)) > You are not only in the stands but in the centre of the arena now, with > flowers coming down. (Or is that rain? Hope it ain't rain.) > > Shemales-from-hell here I come! ;-) > > Mucho appreciones I'm really glad it worked for you. WMP works in mysterious ways and it is rather difficult to figure out whwat's wrong since so many things go wrong with this program :-| Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire It’s too late for me to check because now it’s working, but in case i helps, this is what I did. Some of these may be unnecessary or jus plain stupid, but I can’t tell now. All I know is I did all of it an now it works. Delete the following: Windows Media Player folder (probably in Applications) ~/Library/Preferences/Windows Media Player Prefs ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.mediaplayer.plist (I think, o something like that—like I said, I already deleted it all) Anything else you can find in Preferences folders that looks related t WMP. Reinstall WMP. I was shocked when it worked, I thought it was som inherent incompatibility -- Frung I also have a brand new G5. I just downloaded the WMP 9 and when I try to play *wmv file, I get the message that it cannot be played, but the same CD I can play in windows media. Reading the complaints about MAC OS and WMP, I wonder if they are not compatable. Thanks. Kris > I also have a brand new G5. I just downloaded the WMP 9 and when I try > to play *wmv file, I get the message that it cannot be played, but the > same CD I can play in windows media. > Reading the complaints about MAC OS and WMP, I wonder if they are not > compatable. It's a possibility. It depends mostly on the codec and DRM. What does the warning say exactly ? Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. However, the version available for download states it was last updated in October 2003. But then on another webscreen, it states that this version of WMP for Mac OS X was last updated on Sept. 1, 2005. > > I also have a brand new G5. I just downloaded the WMP 9 and when I try > > to play *wmv file, I get the message that it cannot be played, but the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Corentin > Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. However, the version available for download states it > was last updated in October 2003. But then on another webscreen, it states > that this version of WMP for Mac OS X was last updated on Sept. 1, 2005. You can't trust these dates. Look at the version number. Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire I just got the new Imac. I downloaded WMP9 as well as flip4mac. I can't play videos from comedy central. It keeps saying I must download WMP 9. Suggestions? > I also have a brand new G5. I just downloaded the WMP 9 and when I try > to play *wmv file, I get the message that it cannot be played, but the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks. > Kris Some websites are stupidly written to try to detect what they think the user should be using. Beacuse they don't know about Flip4Mac and detect 'quicktime' they assume you can't watch the videos. Usually using View -> Source and looking for a Filename="blah.wmv" or URL="blah.wmv" is enough to get the URL to the video, which you can open in Quicktime HTH Cheers - Neil >I just got the new Imac. I downloaded WMP9 as well as flip4mac. I can't >play videos from comedy central. It keeps saying I must download WMP 9. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> Thanks. >> Kris ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs > Some websites are stupidly written to try to detect what they think > the user should be using. Beacuse they don't know about Flip4Mac and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > URL="blah.wmv" is enough to get the URL to the video, which you can > open in Quicktime I don't think you even get to this point on their site. If you use a browser that can pretend it is something else (eg: a windows browser), then you see a different message. With FireFow: they want you to download a plug-in With IE: everything is peachy (though it still suggests that I download Flash 7 even though I have Flash player 8 :-> ), Here is what I did: I used OmniWeb and set it to pretend to be IE 6 for Windows on the comedy central site. I can now play videos from the MotherLoad, though the pages don't look quite as they probably should. The videos stream just fine through FLip4Mac. Really really COmedy Central should revise this policy and let us, poor Mac users, play the videos. Their minimum requirements obviously don't make sense since the videos play. You should write to the webmaster to let him know about this issue, Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > With IE: everything is peachy (though it still suggests that I download > Flash 7 even though I have Flash player 8 :-> ), > > Here is what I did: > I used OmniWeb and set it to pretend to be IE 6 for Windows on the > comedy central site. Better option: Pretending to be IE 6 for WIndows makes you loose Flash content. Pretending to be FireFox 1.5 for Windows is just fine. They tell you that you need to download a plug-in but you don't: just click on the links for your videos and everything is fine. I know Safari cando something like that providing it's debug menu is activated (but I don;t remember the procedure). OmniWeb 5.1.3 can set these preferences on a per site basis (but the list of browser is somehow older and I haven't tested whether it worked or not. I did that with OmniWeb 5.5sp11 (beta - requires MacOS X 10.4)) which is available on the OmniGroup forums: http://forums.omnigroup.com/index.php once you have registered on the forums (free - but without registering you simply cannot see and access the Sneak Peek area of the forums where all links and instructions are). Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > Have just upgraded my Mac to Os10.4.2 (Tiger) and now my previously working > Windows Media Player is no longer working. I thought that maybe I needed to > up date my WMP so I downloaded the latest player but to no avial! > Has anyone else had this problem and if so, what did you do to fix it? > Its very frustrating. I also just upgraded to Tiger. I downloaded the Windows Media Player (which the webscreen states was last updated 9/1/05). However, after I hit the Download button and checked the Info for the application, it says this version was last updated Oct. 2003. Anyway, I'm trying to get live streaming on XM Radio and the audio doesn't work. XM Radio advised me to download that application in addition to Macromedia Flash 7. I did all that and restarted, but it still doesn't work. Could the problem be the software being downloaded is not the latest version??? > Have just upgraded my Mac to Os10.4.2 (Tiger) and now my previously working > Windows Media Player is no longer working. I thought that maybe I needed to > up date my WMP so I downloaded the latest player but to no avial! > Has anyone else had this problem and if so, what did you do to fix it? > Its very frustrating. > Could the problem be the software being > downloaded is not the latest version??? Nope. The latest version *is* 9.0 and there has been no update since then. Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire |
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