Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / January 2006

Haven't had a chance to test it yet, but I am hoping it steaming Window
Media a little better.
www.flip4mac.com

I read today that Microsoft will no longer continue development or support
Windows Media Player for MAC. Did you guys not just watch how Apple just got
the lion's share of the mp3 player market?
If your manager made this decision then you need to go above that persons

After downloading this 12 times during the night, I still can't get it to
Install. When I open the Innstaller it puts a new file on my desktop namd.
Windows Media.sitx.1 and it just launches TextEdit.
How can I do anything with it? I don't think I want it for web browsing,

Mac g5 running 10.4.3
I've gone to Mactopia and attempted to download WMP 9 for Mac.  When
trying to open the Windows Media .sitx (which appeared on the desktop
after download), I get the following message:

Hi all. I wanted to clear the "recently played" cache in WMP, and followed
the advice of one of the posters here, who suggested that in order to clear
it, you needed to trash the "preferences" or "favorites" file for WMP. I did
that, and then reinstalled WMP, but now when I try ...

i have 10.4.3 installed with windows media player 9 and i have been
able to watch and listen to wmv fine untill all of the sudden no wmvs
will play now.  even the sample one microsoft gives you wont play.  i
have rebooted and reinstalled. any ideas

  I live in the U.S. and am trying to access Italian Language iideo
programming from Italy:  news, weather, etc.
  When I search inside Windows Media Player, I only find "feeds" in
English about Italy.

macosX Windows Media Player is not able to read .wmv that use WMV3 codec. I
haven't found a solution to that problem.
Can someone help me....

Hi,
My name is David from Philadelphia.
Just asking, are we (Mac users) going to be able to have an upgrade that
supports all the codecs, and DRMs that Windows XP supports? I understand that

Hy all,
i'm looking for the codec acelp.net for WMP 9.0 (OSX).
Any news about it?
thank's a lot!

No sound when playing a burnt or original cd or dvd - mute button off - will
play sound from internet. Dvd will play sound when played through Power DVD?  
Any answers appreciated.

Hi, i am just wondering - Has anyone figured out how to completely remove WMP
9 for Mac OS X yet?  It didn't do what I wanted it to, now I would like it to
be gone!  Do I have to reformat my Hard Drive?  It's a little frustrating.

Hello ...,
the Windows Mediaplayer 9 for Mac OS X plays videos outside of the safari
window (Safari 2.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.3). Can videos be played also within
safari? The same applies to audio.

When I run the installer in Mac OS X 10.4.3, it beach balls and is reported
as not responding. I see the status bar stuck at "searching drive" (or
something similar to that), but it just sits there. I've left it there with
the beach ball for 15 minutes before I give up and force ...

I have tried and tried to play the video clip found on this page:
<http://et.tv.yahoo.com/movies/13480/>; the video freezes shortly after
the beginning every time (the audio keeps going). I have my WMP
buffering preferences set to 99 seconds (the largest value that can be