The mystery of streaming WMV files

I have downloaded WMV and it works on some sites for video streaming. The operative word here is "some".
Some sites the video opens in the page as intended, some others the file opens in a separate WMV window after a diolog box asking if I want to try it, then there are the other sites that either indicate a missing codec or say "WMV not detected"
The one I'm really interested in cracking is CNN.com. Many of the features there are video only, and I cannot get them to play on my MacBook. Can anybody? If so, mind telling me how?
If you go to cnn.com, you will see many articles with a small camera beside them. Those are the ones.
Thanks
Mike

Hi. I have an Intel iMac and I had the same issues with Safari and Camino. Firefox PPC worked on "some" sites as well. Yahoo's world cup videos didnt work....now that *** big time.
Work around? without the need of downloading anything you can see the videos on both safari and Camino, but they have to run under Rosetta.
To do this quit safari, open the finder, right click safari, get info and put a check mark on "open under rosetta."
that would make safari run a little slower (i have 2 gigs of ram so i dont really see a big difference) but you should be able to see wmv on safari.

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