HT204382 I've gone through the process of installing Flip4Mac WMV, but the program will not open. When I try to open a torrent file to play, it tells me it can't be opened because a required codec isn't available. What am I doing wrong?
It originally told me that I didn't have the required codec, so that's why I downloaded flip4mac. It's still giving me that message, and Flip4mac won't open at all. Quicktime won't open either. It shows up in the dock but won't open. Can anyone help?
There are a number of Windows Media codecs that have never been ported to Mac, and the copy protection system also has never been ported. So it's quite possible that whatever this file is you downloaded, you will never be able to play it in Mac OS X. Without knowing what the file is, however, it's not possible to be certain.
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