Screen saver on Intel Mac

I successfully downloaded a screensaver from http://www.climatecrisis.net/downloads/ After I double clicked on the file called AIT_mac, it installed and I received a a message saying that installation was successful and that the Screen Saver pane in System Prefs would now launch. When that launched, I got an error message saying that the file would not work and that I should contact the developer for a newer version. I believe that this occured because I am running a 15" MacBook Pro, and I got the same error message when I tried to install the Flip4Mac QuickTime plugin, which is not a UniBin. Does anyone have information on this?

Hi, macbookdemon.
1. re: Screen saver. If the screen saver is written exclusively for PowerPC-based Macs, it won't work on your MacBook Pro. The author will need to release a Universal Binary.
2. re: Flip4Mac: Unfortunately, the free Flip4Mac WMV player, which adds support for playing Windows Media files in QuickTime (except those protected with WMA-DRM), is not yet available in a Universal Binary that will work on your Intel-based Mac. They plan to release a Universal Binary at some point.
However, I've read here that Popwire WMV-9 Component can play Windows Media files under QuickTime. I've not tried it, but you may want to give it a whirl.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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