Problem playing files

I have some .dir files, which are the director published
format. I've been trying to get them to play and they will not
play. Every time I click on one in windows it brings up the "choose
what program to play these in" dialog. Adobe flash player is on the
list and is what I tried, but I did not associate these files with
that in case it didn't work and it didn't work.
I then did some web research and it seems that the shockwave
flash player is needed not the flash player. So I downloaded the
current shockwave flash player and installed it. I get no option
with that same dialog box to choose shockwave flash player. There
is none in the list.
So I uninstalled both the shockwave flash player and the
flash player and reinstalled the shockwave flash player. The flash
player shows up as an option still but the shockwave flash player
does not, nor can I find any sort of stand alone shockwave flash
player to try and play this .dir file.
I then read all the tech help on the adobe site for swf
player problems and checked my registry, which is fine and looks
just like their screenshots and yet I STILL can't get this file to
play. When I click on a .swf file it opens in the flash player of
course and plays fine.
HOW do I get the shockwave flash player to recognize these
.dir files and play them? Talk about frustrating, going through 3
hours of net research, installs, uninstalls and still not coming up
with a viable solution of any sort.
/SIGH

RM stands for Real Media. Real Media is one of the most popular formats for streaming content on the Internet, RealMedia includes the RealAudio codec for sound clips and RealVideo codec for movies. RealAudio and RealVideo files are often given the common RealMedia ".RM" file extension. RealMedia files are often heavily compressed so they can stream over dial-up Internet connections.
RMVB stands for Real Media Variable Bitrate. RMVB is commonly used to contain Real Video 9 and RA (Real Audio).
It is surprising that Xilisoft video converter cant support output for .rmvb... I advise you to try this best video converter, it supports output .rm and .rmvb from .avi perfectly, and let you edit the video files for high output effect... As for converting videos to wmv, this video conversion tool could fix it up easily too.
Message Edited by maxmonkey on 12-Jan-2010 09:40 AM

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