Windows Media Plug in for Safari?

I have been trying to play Windows Media Player clips inside certain webpages and nothing works unless I download them to the desktop and open it with VLC. I have Windows Media Player 9, but it's still not working properly in Safari. Do I need a specific plug in for Windows Media Player? If so, where do I get it. Thanks, -Brian

Try reinstalling the Media player. That usually installs the plugin it needs for safari.

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Can someone explain how I might get this radio station to play? When I try I get the error: "Cannot open the file. Verify the path and file name are correct and try again."
CBC Radio Victoria Streaming Windows Media:
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I also get that error message from time to time.
From what I understand, Windows media has some kind
of proprietary licensing system that grants the WM
Player permission to only play certain licensed
files. Unfortunately, Windows Media Player 9 for Mac
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software
/Macintosh/osx/faq.aspx?section=TOPISSUES&question=TOP
ISSUES3#NAME_TOPISSUES
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Control-Click and choose "View Source" to look at the
source code, copy the file path of the file I'm
looking to play-
The file you're tying to play is-
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.asx
and paste it into the VLC Player:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC is open source, plays just about anything and is
free to boot.
Hope that helps.
I read your reply with interest since I am getting the same error message when trying to click on Earthlink Video News stories. Efforts to get a solution from Earthlink have been fruitless. Copying the source code and then pasting it into VLC or Windows Media Player have not worked. Video News WILL run using Internet Explorer. There are 3 plugins for WMP that do not show up in Safari:
video/x-ms-asf-plugin
application/x-mplayer2
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I am looking for some assistance on an issue i am having. I have downloaded windows media player for mac. However when i browse to a web page that has streaming media that uses Windows Media Player, the media doesn't stream and shows a plug in icon (like a blue lego brick) and i get an error message saying that Safari cannot play the media as i don't have the correct plug-in, do i want to try using Windows Media Player. If i click 'yes' Media Player launches as a stand-alone application. Is there a way to stream the media on the original site as intended?
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Hi Stuart!
The questions are no problem...glad to help!
Ok 2 things...you are not going to be able to use Windows Media Player...you must use Flip4Mac. Microsoft decided to not develop it anymore and they are even promoting Flip4Mac now (that's why I gave you the link to their site...sorry if it was confusing). And they stopped the development before Macs went Intel...that's why you can't run it. Only pre-Intel Macs can run the actual Windows Media Player. So first download the Flip4Mac and that will do it for you.
Now about the .sitx this is an extension for Stuffit compressed files. On pc your are used to seeing .zip files often. Mac too has .zip and you don't need anything to unzip it...Mac OS X can unzip automatically. But on Mac .dmg (disk images) are more common. You will notice them if you haven't already as most software is distributed in disk images. Stuffit (.sitx) is kinda outdated but you still might see it sometimes. (Remember Windows Media is kinda outdated too that's why it's still using .sitx.) You can download Stuffit for free for those times you might need it. No rush since you won't be using that Windows Media Player anyways. Here's the link:
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html
You won't be able to view that content until you get Flip4Mac installed. Now there are some videos out there that might not play on Safari...but first let's get the right tools installed then go from there.
And about the Firefox downloads yes that's strange. Firefox should perform comparably to Safari. That difference is huge! I don't believe there's anything special to setup prior on Firefox so I'm not sure at the moment what that might be?
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