Problems playing .wmv file with Flip4mac installed

I have a video that was made in Windows Movie Maker, I believe, that is .wmv format. Works fine on the PC at church and home, but won't play on either my MacBook or my friend's. It is a fairly large file, 483MB.
It played fine on my old PowerBook G4 in Windows Media Player for Mac, but haven't tried it for a while, and I don't want to download Windows Media Player for Mac now that Flip4Mac is installed.
Other .wmv files play fine, this is the only one that has not worked...any ideas?

Have you installd the latest Quicktime? .....Don't
Flip4mac worked well for me until I did.........

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As for converters try SUPER, it's one of the best and can convert pretty much anything you throw at it to any format you wish, best of all its FREE:
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