Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / December 2005

anytime i try to view a video in windows media player series 9 for mac osx,
on the top of the screen says trial version and wont play the whole video.  
it stops mid way and freezes.  how to i fix this or download something other
than the download off of your website.  please ...

My question is how to play wm files in server  that require user and a pass
to connect in windows appear a pop-up dialog where you can put your name and
pass but in a mac I can not get the pop-up

WMP unstuffs and downloads fine. It will not respond to opening. I have read
other messages regarding this. But how can you delete a preference file for
WMP if it will not respond and open.
Like others, I origiannly thought that I needed to download it again due to

I'm sure that most Macintosh users are aware that Microsoft doesn't
give ONE SH*T about Macintosh users, and that the Microsoft Business
Unit will do EVERYTHING in its powers to DESTROY Mac users' computing
experiences.  Despite their temporarily obligatory attempts to keep

I've installed, uninstalled and reinstalled WMP 7.1 on my G4 (sytesm 9.1)
four times. It won't do squat. I get the same message over and over, (Server
cannot complete the invalid request) when I try to download a wmv file.
Anybody have an answer?

can someone tell me pls why everytime i open my player it says not responding?

Ever since Mac OS X 10.3.x, my WMP 9.0 doesn't work. I have reinstalled
several time, but to no avail. Not even the demo will play. 'Stream not
found.' For other streamed content, WMP just sits there, no error message or
anything.

I can't seem to find where I can create a library of music.  I can open a WMA
file one by one and play them, but not a library of songs to play all at
once.  Any ideas?

Can anyone help me
download WMP on my
mac?  I can get it
to download, but

I am trying to get an embeded WMP player to support ScriptCommand on a MAC.
I have tested under Safari as well as FireFox and IE, and can't seem to get
this to work. Has anyone out there been able to get ScriptCommands (URL
Specifically) to work under a MAC. If so please reply.

Message I get is "file not found."  I have the latest version of WMP
installed. Using a PowerBook G4 and OS10.3.9.  Safari as browser
(Explorer no better).  Can't seem to play any of these files.  What's
up here??

I have publishing points that are for course material that require us to
control access.  We opt to use the 'WMS Publishing Points ACL Authorization'
within WMS.  When this is enabled it makes it so our Mac clients can't
connect to our streams using WMP v9 for Mac.  Is there any ...

I've read snippets here and there that you can embed a java applet into a
web page to play WMV files on the Mac.  Does anyone know how to do this and
if it works?

Everytime I attempt to install media player it says that no software can be
found to open it with. Shouldn't it just install? Why is it so hard to get
something so simple to work?

It's obvious from the many, many posts, (including mine) that there is
something seriously wrong with WMP for Mac, and someone at Microsuck
needs to get on it and fix the d@mn problem!!
My iBook is 2 months old, and I haven't had any unfixable problems with