Video-Windows Media Player

It would seem by BRAND NEW MacBook Pro cannot play Windows Media Player files off the internet...is there any way that I can get it to? I will get software if that is what is required. Thank you for any imput.

Hi Travis,
According to Microsloth it can play WMV9 codec material
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/codecs/video.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/codecs/audio.aspx
As can Flip4Mac and older QuickTimes
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
But no mention of 10 and I don't have anything here in that format to test it out.

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Sorry to hear about your problems. For a long time I and a colleage were having an issue with our MBP's. When we closed the lid, we thought it was going to sleep, then and hour later when you opened it, it would be all hot and the battery was drained etc. Turns out it wouldn't go to sleep. For a while we remedied the problem by going to the apple menu and hitting sleep then shutting the lid, but after some process of elimination, it turned out that a little freeware app called Desktopple that we used in presentations and etc. . . was the culprit. as soon as I took that app off, Both of our machines started sleeping like babies!!!
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First read this: Adding additional media format support to Quicktime:
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Yes it did. Thanx Erik. Appreciate it.
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
No.
Do NOT use the video icon. As has been stated here a few
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Erik
V1ck1_D wrote:
> I redid this task, I did everything the same as I did
before (posted above)
> accept I changed the file path so it would be shorter
and to avoid the
> mistakes in the path.
>
>
> I created a folder called "Testing".
>
> Created a file in Authorware called "Testing" (a7p) and
inserted that into the
> "Testing" folder.
>
> Inserted an avi video in the "Testing" folder
>
> So with that done I redid the coding in the calc. icon
as:
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>
> Placed my "myvideo.avi" icon below the calc icon.
>
>
> Is the coding correct.
> If someone would help me with this, I would really
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> Thank you.
>
>
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