Safari not playing *.WMV flies

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Safari not playing *.WMV flies

Any time I try to view pages with the "windows media player" built into a website to view a movie (or streaming media like on XM radio), the movie doesn't play; rather opens my own separate version to play the WMV file externally.

How do I get my wmv files to play within safari?? The "player" usually shows up as that blue lego piece with the ? on it, then opens the file externally through windows media player.

This is the error box I get:
"Some content on this page requires an Internet plug-in that Safari doesn’t support. The application “Windows Media Player” may be able to display this content. Would you like to try?"

Any thoughts?
Everything works fine in Firefox; any quicktime movies play within Safari
Thanks for the help!

MBP 2.0GHZ, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 20, 2006 4:53 PM

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Answer 1

seagonus

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Mar 20, 2006 4:55 PM in response to homertime33

I used Safari for a year before switching to Firefox. Safari was notorious for problems (displaying pages properly, java etc.). I don't use it, and don't see a need to.

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homertime33 Author

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Mar 20, 2006 4:56 PM in response to seagonus

I like safari, and don't like firefox all that much... just looking for a fix please!

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Answer 3

Mar 20, 2006 5:03 PM in response to homertime33

Microsoft is no longer supporting media player for Mac - but you can use a (free) 3rd party app that they reccomend:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/flip4mac.mspx

Hope that helps!

Brian

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tribe

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Mar 20, 2006 5:10 PM in response to b.k.jackson

As of yesterday flip4mac wasn't ready work on IntelMacs

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homertime33 Author

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Mar 20, 2006 5:16 PM in response to b.k.jackson

flip4mac doesn't work with intels yet

Does anyone else with a MBP have this issue?

For instance, can anyone with a MBP view this video in SAFARI?! Works fine in Firefox:
http://www.koreus.com/files/200407/lego-zone.html

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homertime33 Author

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Mar 20, 2006 5:20 PM in response to homertime33

Note: It works FINE in Safari using Rosetta...
Safari is just so dang slow in rosetta

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Answer 7

Mar 21, 2006 5:45 AM in response to tribe

Ahh sorry - didn't realize 🙂

Brian

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Mac J

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Mar 21, 2006 6:21 AM in response to b.k.jackson

However, you can still download the Windows Media Player for OS X, can't you? I have the latest version which I downloaded last year. It works fine for playing WMVs.

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Answer 9

Mar 21, 2006 7:22 AM in response to homertime33

Any time I try to view pages with the "windows media
player" built into a website to view a movie (or
streaming media like on XM radio), the movie doesn't
play; rather opens my own separate version to play
the WMV file externally.

How do I get my wmv files to play within safari??
The "player" usually shows up as that blue lego
piece with the ? on it, then opens the file
externally through windows media player.

This is the error box I get:
"Some content on this page requires an Internet
plug-in that Safari doesn’t support. The application
“Windows Media Player” may be able to display this
content. Would you like to try?"

Any thoughts?
Everything works fine in Firefox; any quicktime
movies play within Safari
Thanks for the help!

Why is this an issue? As long as I have used Safari, it has opened WMP on it's own. So it does work, and in my opinion, better. Then you can minimize the WMP window, and it's out of the way. Why do you want it to play within the browser?

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Answer 10

Mar 21, 2006 8:50 AM in response to Peter K. Grether

So what runs faster with rosetta?

Firefox? or Safari?

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Answer 11

Mar 21, 2006 9:35 AM in response to Mac Daddy jr

Hi Mac Daddy,

I actually prefer Camino over Firefox. But I have all three that I open at different times. I think all three are quite fast now as universal applications. As I posted in a seperate thread I also use PithHelmet with Safari to remove ads from my browsing.

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/7548

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homertime33 Author

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Mar 21, 2006 12:08 PM in response to Peter K. Grether

It's an issue because it keeps on popping up the stupid confirmation box to play a WMV externally when the video should be playing within the browser. The player opens behind the safari window, then you got to change windows, and then close the program. There's no need to do that when Windows Media Player has been working in Safari on other macs, and within other programs on the MBP

Guys, if you don't have any useful information in addressing the matter of getting WMV's to play within Safari on a Mac Book Pro, please don't bother posting. I don't need people telling me to "just use firefox" or just let it open in Windows Media Player externally; I need resolution to the problem, which seems to be an invalid windows media player plugin extension for Safari.

I appreciate the opinions and other thoughts, but all I want is a straightforward answer to the question.
Thanks

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Answer 13

Mar 21, 2006 12:10 PM in response to homertime33

they guy gave you the answer. flip for mac. that program works. try it.

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Mark Hunt

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Mar 21, 2006 12:29 PM in response to Steven Santoianni1

It works for intel?

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Answer 15

Mar 21, 2006 12:41 PM in response to Mark Hunt

shouldnt it? if it was suggested in here i would assume the person has used it on their MBP. if not then i dont know why someone without a MBP would post an answer in here. lol

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