Director and WMV video

I have been searching for a reason why I am unable to get WMV
video files to work in Director. I am using Director MX 9.0. I saw
a post on a forum saying that one should have a newer version of
DirectX and I have downloaded that and installed it but I am still
unable to import the WMV file...or should I say that it imports
under ALL FILES but I see no option for WMV and when I get it into
direct it just shows as place saver, it wont play on the stage. Can
anyone possibly aid me in finding out why I cant get WMV files
working? This is for a work assignment and I am being held up
because of this...thanks in advance.

I believe that the 1st version to support WMV files is MX
2004 (version
10), so you would need a new version of Director in order to
play those
files. You can still use Quicktime (and I think Real, but I'm
not sure
about that).

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