Mac Compatible Software

Hi, I'm a new Mac user. Loved to watch movies online. Some websites req a QVOD Player (which is good, cos it allows you to d/l the movies onto the player & can watch it later). Since switching to the MacBook, I can no longer go to such websites cos it doesn't have a compatible player for Mac.
Can anyone help?

It's interesting how big the disconnect is between China/SouthEastAsia and the rest of the world. I traveled to China for 5 weeks last year and was exposed to an entirely different world of computing. QQ dominates and things like QVOD are common. Most users run hacked up versions of Windows XP. A friend of mine from Hong Kong watches all her HK shows using QVOD, it looks like the file format is SMV which uses a bunch of jpeg files with buffer between them and audio overlay. Why something silly like a stream of raw JPEG files? It seems this is actually a common way to rip or pirate streaming TV. Many HK shows are streamed from TV websites, but for political and financial reasons, you have to have an HK IP address to access the websites. Or, for everyone else, you can precariously navigate the swamp of nasty websites with obnoxious flashing advertisements, some of which are blatant viruses or phishing tools. These sites link to the same videos but provide SMV format.
Getting QVOD to work is even a challenge for people from the area. Other southeast asian friends of mine have tried to get this mess working on Windows 7, Windows Vista and have trouble because of software incompatibility or language packs. The only working examples I have seen in person were Chinese language pirated Windows XP. This is very frustrating because I would love to upgrade my friend to mac OS X, or even Windows 7, or something other than XP!
QVOD is a great example of the other world of the internet. The vast majority, if not all the content, is mandarin or cantonese based. I really don't think there is a QVOD solution for mac, nor will there ever be. I think you best bet is to look for the same content via torrents, p2p and other methods. QVOD and SMV is really slick, and torrents are clumsy by comparison... but I just have not found any other options. I am seriously stumped, it's amazing to see the gap here, truly amazing.

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