Lost windows media player with Lion install

Is there an alternative player or ?
Thanks for your help.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.  Do you mean you can no longer play WMV files since upgrading to Lion?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/windows-media-player/wmcompo nents
Windows Media Player is a Windows only program (it is not available in OS X).  So I'm only guessing that you're looking to play Windows Media files on your Mac.

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