Cannot play .wmv format files

Posted problem a while ago with a number of suggestions for which I was thankful BUT nothing seemed to help. I finally gave up in frustration thinking
that since most of the files were coming from Acquisition that they might be
corrupted. However so many bad files didn't make sense.
I've had friends on PCs send me .wmv files and the same error message occurs.
I have VLC Player, MPlayer and RealPlayer and none of them work for .wmv files.
ORIGINAL TOPIC: when I drag an ..wmv file into the windows media player
icon, the window will open up BUT then an error message will appear
"Cannot open the file. Verify that the path and filename are correct and try again."
How do I fix that so that I can play .wmv files?
Any new ideas????

There are codecs in the Windows version of Windows Media Player which do not exist on a Mac, so perhaps that's the issue.
But you say you tried VLC Player and MPlayer, but not that you've tried the Mac version of WMP, so if you haven't, give that a try. If that doesn't work, one last thing to try would be WMV Player. It's not free, but they have a free trial so you could see if it worked for you.
If none of those solutions help, then I can only guess that the files are encoded in a codec for which no Mac version exists. When you get stuff from Acquisition or any other P2P network, there's no knowing what sort of hash you'll end up with.
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