Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / December 2005

When I try and run video on several sites i get an error message and it
won't play.  I reinstalled WMP and attempted to run the video on
Safari, IE and netscape, none worked.
The error message says: "This page has content of MIME type

I can't seem to open WMP at all. I have dowloaded WMP 9 and I have
Stuffit. Every time I try to view something it says "Cannot open the
file. Verify that the path and filename are correct and try again" OR
it freezes the entire program and I have to force quit to get out of

I've just installed WMP9 on my iMac G5, but the playback is terrible.
No video and very choppy sound.
When I play the same stream on a PC over the same network, it works
fine.

I am operating my Powerbook G4 with OSX 10.3.4 and am running consistently
into this problem:  When opening a website that contains a Œwmv¹ file the
media player WMP 9 opens but does not play the video clips.  Instead it
offers the error message ³The request is not valid in current ...

On occasion I try listening to my favorite radio station and it'll play the
same 10 second clip over and over.  
I've quit, disconeccted from the internet, EVEN tried restarting my computer
but when I try to reconnect, it buffers and still plays the same 10 second

In every version of WMP for Mac I've had, the controls (FFWD, REV) are always
grayed out. Is there a way to fix this so I can easily scan through vide
files?

Since the purchase of my new iMac G5 running OS X 10.4.3 I have had
trouble with .wmv files.
I get a message as the file launches that reads:
This file may not play correctly because it was compressed by using a

Hello Mac OSX power users:
I just reinstalled Media Player on my new G5 iMac using OSX-Tiger.
When I try to open a .wmv file directly or when I try to open the
Windows Media Player application, it unexpectedly quits.  What do I

Hello Mac Users,
I'm new to computers, & i'm having a problem installing windows media
player. My problem is I don't know how to install it! Can anyone out
there give me a hand? Thanx.

I paired a bluetooth head set on my PB 17" Tiger 10.4.3 laptop.
Quicktime and all other video players (VLC/Mplayer, etc) use the sound
device defined in system preferences. However, I can not get Windows
Media Player from trying to use the bluetooth headset. I've unpaired

Hi Corentin and all the other's
I am trying to listen to an Egyptian radio station - Nogoum FM - which
you can find here : http://www.mazika.com/en/NogoumFM.aspx .
Unfortunately I can't get it to work as I think that the used technology

I have MAC OSX 10.3 and I downloaded Windows Media Play 9.0 for Mac OSX.  The
Video plays but there is no sound.  I can use Quicktime and I get  sound from
Quicktime and other Macintosh applications.   I  clicked mute on and off
several times and moved the volume up but still get ...

I am using OSX and have Windows Media Playr 9 installed. I have a problem
playing ebmbedded content in a webpage.
When its an automatic video it plays fine (in Safari only)
But if there is a link that I have to click on to start the video in the

When using a Mac and playing a multiple bitrate file (56K, 150K, 300K) PLayer
for some reason always plays the lowest bitrate as a default. So eventhough I
have a fast connection I get the 56K bitrate video. Why is that? Is this some
kind of a bug?

Hi folks - I have os9.2  and am running internet explorer with windows media
player 7.1
When running wmv files, audio plays, but video screen remains blank, except
with the trial vid, which works ok.