Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / November 2005

I have a question and i don't even know how to start asking it. but
i'll try.
I connected my PC (with matrox card) to a TV Monitor for playing a live
music channel.

WMP V9.0 on MacOS X 10.4.3 displays the following when I try to play some purchased tracks:
"In order to play this file, you need to upgrade your media player to a version compatible with
Windows Media Rights Manager V7. Select View Compatible Players below to see a list of ...

I have stuffit 10. downloaded.  When I attempt to download media player 9,
I click on the icon in my hardrive but it only launches itunes.  I cannot
rid my computer of this preference as i have tried to download properly
several times.  I've checked some other posts but i haven't ...

As a technology support coach at NYCDoE, I am surprised to find that the WMP
for Mac v9 does not automatically open the closed captioning for a downloaded
video.  This is a new thread as there was no previous discussion pulled up
from my search.  I am working with united ...

I keep getting a message that it is locked, but the applicationn "Get
Info" says it isn't.  This hasn't happened before, does anyone have any
ideas?

Hey guys,
I was just wondering what I need to do to use Firefox and WMP9 for OS X
to play embedded .au files from a website.  I'm a support rep for a
company that delivers our content in this way, and they've asked me

Hi, I've tried playing ASX files with windows media player 9, real player,
quick time and VLC player and non of them will play them. I found out that
ASX were to do with windows so I thought I'd ask here. How would I go about
playing them on my Mac?

Am I missing something, or does WMP9 not allow playlists?  Is there any way
that I can queue up a bunch of WMA files?

Just setup a Win2K3 server with many websites and Windows Media
Services. WMS uses port 90 for HTTP requests, and the firewall is all
configured. The chaps in the server newsgroup helped me get it all sorted.
The streams were all working happily on the macs last week, but

I have the WindowsMediaInstaller.bin on my desktop, but it tries to open
using Excel. How can I bypass this?

I searched the web for an answer to this problem to no avail.
Microsoft's Knowledge Base didn't have anything either.  When I view
movies in Windows Media Player 9 for OS X a strange thing happens; when
the window is in the foreground (ie: it is selected) the playback is

the local provider for video on demand services in Sweden uses a technology
based on WMP as I understand it. As the Mac client has only limited support
for DRM, this service in not available to users running anything else than
Windows. Is this being worked on by the Mac team at ...

I have downloaded movie clips from an Internet entertainment site. The
webmaster of the site insists they are in .wmv format. Yet when I boot up
Windows Media Player for Mac (latest version) and try to open them, either on
my hard disk, or using the URL search, I get an invalid ...