Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / May 2006

On the PC, as long as you have a flashplayer installed on IE, you can
play SWF content within the Windows Media Player by calling it via an
ASX file.
On the Mac, this doesn't seem to work.  Can anyone confirm that the

I'm using Pentium III,OS windows XP Profesional with SP 1.
i was downloaded WMP 10 setup file from microsoft and try to install it on
my PC,but it shows message "EXTRACTING FILE FAILED.IT IS MOST LIKELY CAUSED
BY LOW MEMORY (LOW DISK SPACE FOR SWAPPING FILE) OR CORRUPTED CABINET ...

Whenever I try to listen to a certain webstreams, I get an error message
saying
-2048, I have no idea what it means, can anyone help me?? Thanks

I'm trying to install WMP 9 on a G4 PowerBook running OS 10.4.6.  I had no
trouble downloading the installer and unstuffing it.  However, when I run it,
it gets hung up in the "searching" stage and stops responding.  The only
thing I can do to get out of it is force quit.  I've ...

right i might sound really stupid but i have downloaded stuffit and it
is also a .sitx file, how on earth do i get this stupid thing to work,
it asks me what application i want to open it wit, back at square one.
Anyone any ideas?

every time I try to open a wmv, the windows media player logo pops up in the
dock, bounces a few times, and then shuts down...i can't even open it!
This happens with all videos I try to open with windows media.
Someone please help!

It's possible to find a free site or low cost site to share up to 1 G wmv on
the web ? I need to share continuosly various files.

I have downloaded the file but it is a .sitx file and asks me to choose
a program to open it. Nothing woks and i am unsure how to complete the
download and open up the program.
Help anyone??

Have just upgraded my Mac to Os10.4.2 (Tiger) and now my previously working
Windows Media Player is no longer working. I thought that maybe I needed to
up date my WMP so I downloaded the latest player but to no avial!
Has anyone else had this problem and if so, what did you do to ...

Media Player will not allow me to change the network buffering to the
recommended setting- it is set at 3 sec and the area is grayed out.
How do I get  this area live - so I can change the setting
I am using XP - IE and media player 10 - I do not currently want to use  

I can't change song's release year in advanced tag editor in WMP 9-11,
because there is no that editbox. The one way to change year is editing it in
library, but this is unconvinient then i want set one year for a lot of
songs. How can i corect it?

When I open a WMA file (sound snippet from a record store) the file
automatically downloads to my desktop which is very annoying since I go
through a dozens of sound snippets when shopping, resulting in my desktop
being a total mess. This is on an Intel iMac. However on my iBook ...

I recently bought a MaCBook Pro, so i tried downloading WMP 9.0. I was able
to download it, but it was a .sitx file, so I also had to download SuffIt.
But, I tried to open up WMP and it kept not responding when I was trying to
install. It would go through everything, but when it ...