Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / July 2004

I can't  watch streaming vids from the site I'm trying to access. This
they have told me. If I try to go to Open URL I get "The file name,
diectory name, or volumn label syntax is incorrect". If I try to
download, I get the file buy when I try to see it I get I get "The

Does anyone know how to play avi files on eMac?

Using Media Player, is there anyway I can burn a .wav file as an audio file
without converting to .cda?  I don't want to save as a data file.

It will not play any music. It keeps comin up as:
The audio codec identified by the format tag 55 is required to play this file. To determine if this codec is available to download from the Web, click Web Help.
AND C00D11B6
Clicking Web Help doesn't help me much either. It does not ...

Windows Media Player has never been able to play full-screen video right.
I've got a fast enough Mac for it (whereas my iBook can't even play WMP files
without being choppy as all get out), a dual 867G4 with 32MB VRAM on my
graphics card. Any suggestions as to how to fix my ...

When I enter a page with video content I get the message:
This page has content of MIME type "application/x-oleobject".Because ou
don't a plug-in installed for this MIME type, this content can't be displayed
How can I prevent this

I have a mac osx. I've downloaded the installer for wmp 9
for mac and when I use stuffit I get this message "An error
has occurred while expanding the file 'windows media.sitx'
(format error)"

I have a PDA PPC which has WMA on it with win 2002. I have installed WMA 9
for Mac on my G4 (Panther). WMA on the G4 will not play the wav, files
created by my PDA.
Can someone tell me what I need to do to hear these files on my Mac?

I saved "Windows Media.sitx" to my Desktop and tried to
open it with Stuffit Expander, but I get the following
message:
"The file "Windows Media.sitx" does not appear to be

You've probably heard this a million times. any way get acelp.net codec to
work
in windows media player osx

I am using Mac OSX v 10.3. I had downloaded the Windows Media Player and
installed it. However, I cannot seem to delete the the file. The message
appeared stating that the *****.htm files are locked and cannot be deleted.
Can somebody help me with this? Thank you

Is there any type of SDK or API available for working
with Windows Media on Mac OS X?
I have looked in a number of places but turn up nothing
except for some odd and obscure references to an SDK for

but when trying to open the icon in the dock just bounces up and down for
about 45 seconds and never opens the application.
Any thoughts?

I get a message: "Channel does not support stream format"
any clues?

Every time I have downloaded the WMP 7.1 installer and tried to install
on my G3 it locks up the system when it says to select continue to turn
off all applications.  I hit continue and the thing just freezes and I
have to reboot, never to install.  No way with the option buttons ...