Windows media player download problem

I cannot download windows media player 7 (appropriate for my OS 9.2) because I get the message that I.E. does not know how to handle the download. All I seem able to get is an indecipherable file. I trashed all the old Windows Media Player stuff I could find before I tried to download this last time, to no avail. Any suggestions?

I am not sure why it can't do video. Wrappers (e.g., Quicktime, AVI, etc.) contain audio and video encoded in various and different forms. The newer video forms are probably not supported in WMP7 whereas the audio is probably still encoded using some older format that is.
Those of us still using OS9 have to face that our OS is getting left behind. I am not sure that WMP was ever all that great for video anyways since in the OS9 era computers were only barely able to truly handle video. I deliberately recently upgraded to only an intermediate age system (Quicksilver dual 800) so I could still run all my OS9 software in a happy native environment (OS9 boot) but also be able to boot OSX with newer software to be able to access newer media forms.
In OSX you can easily play WMV files using the free VLC software. However, I am not sure if the newest version will work with 10.1 -- kind of the same thing you are finding with OS9. Even OS10.1 is getting old now so I would jump to 10.3.9. Anyway, I don't think there is much you can do about getting the video to work since a lot of us experienced the same thing, so it's Media Player 7 and not your computer.

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