Safari not playing *.WMV flies

Any time I try to view pages with the "windows media player" built into a website to view a movie (or streaming media like on XM radio), the movie doesn't play; rather opens my own separate version to play the WMV file externally.
How do I get my wmv files to play within safari?? The "player" usually shows up as that blue lego piece with the ? on it, then opens the file externally through windows media player.
This is the error box I get:
"Some content on this page requires an Internet plug-in that Safari doesn’t support. The application “Windows Media Player” may be able to display this content. Would you like to try?"
Any thoughts?
Everything works fine in Firefox; any quicktime movies play within Safari
Thanks for the help!

Any time I try to view pages with the "windows media
player" built into a website to view a movie (or
streaming media like on XM radio), the movie doesn't
play; rather opens my own separate version to play
the WMV file externally.
How do I get my wmv files to play within safari??
The "player" usually shows up as that blue lego
piece with the ? on it, then opens the file
externally through windows media player.
This is the error box I get:
"Some content on this page requires an Internet
plug-in that Safari doesn’t support. The application
“Windows Media Player” may be able to display this
content. Would you like to try?"
Any thoughts?
Everything works fine in Firefox; any quicktime
movies play within Safari
Thanks for the help!
Why is this an issue? As long as I have used Safari, it has opened WMP on it's own. So it does work, and in my opinion, better. Then you can minimize the WMP window, and it's out of the way. Why do you want it to play within the browser?

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