Help needed to play videos

Hi, I am new Apple user and my work requires that I view various streaming videos from various sites. I am thus far, not able to view even one ! Called Apple support and downloaded and installed FLIP4Mac, but that didn't work either. Is this going to be an ongoing problem ? Anyone know, in laymans terms, how/what I need to do to be able to play wmv extension files?
Appreciate your help. thanks much

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