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Halo Creator - Jul 4, 2006 - 8:16 pm

I am running on the new iMAC osx and everytime i am on the web and need to see a movie clip i get this message: It contains MIME type application/x-Mplayer 2. Then it says I have dont have a plug-in installed for this MIME type. What do i have to install to play these movie clips. I need help. thanks

earthsaver - Jul 4, 2006 - 9:19 pm

Appears that you need MPlayer OS X.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27163

- Ben

Halo Creator - Jul 4, 2006 - 9:32 pm

Thanks for the help but that didnt do it. it keeps refering me to windows media player. but i cant get it to work on my computer do you know how to get windows media to work on the Os X system .... thank you

earthsaver - Jul 4, 2006 - 9:59 pm

Have you downloaded Windows Media Player?
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13112

earthsaver - Jul 4, 2006 - 9:59 pm

The Windows Media plugin might not work, though, and you'll have to copy the URL containing the video stream and open it in WMP.

Halo Creator - Jul 4, 2006 - 10:20 pm

Thanks for all your help. i will quite for now. i have one more question. everytime i download something and try to open it from my desktop it ask me what do i want to use to open it .. and i have no idea what to use .. can you help.thank you

earthsaver - Jul 4, 2006 - 10:22 pm

Sounds like you're downloading files for which there is no associated application installed. What are you downloading that produces this message?

Halo Creator - Jul 5, 2006 - 8:32 am

I am just going to yahoo and my friends are like go see this movie clip on free movie clip at yahoo. so i go and i cant open any of the movie clips. if i go anywere like google or yahoo and want to watch a movie clip my computer says it doesnt have the right plug in. it says it is running a MIME type. i have tryed to fugure out what i need to download but everyting i get it is never what i need. any ideas

earthsaver - Jul 5, 2006 - 8:38 am

Since most of the media plugins for Web browsers are not yet Universal Binaries, natively compatible with your iMac, you will not have the easy integrated functionality for a while.

Provide me one of the links and I'll see what I can suggest.

Halo Creator - Jul 5, 2006 - 8:41 am

Ok this is where i am trying to go. i go to yahoo. and in the search engine i put in the transformer movie clip. and try to play any clips there but none will work. thank you for all you help.

earthsaver - Jul 5, 2006 - 9:12 am

Yep, it's a Windows Media clip. For me it doesn't play inside the browser, but Flip4Mac's Windows Media Components for QuickTime (which is not yet Universal; hopefully soon) opens the clip in QT automatically. There, I can tell you that the URL for the clip is
http://www.collegeafterhours.com/con...movie_1531.wmv
and you can paste that link in Windows Media Player to make it play, or you can download the clip and open it manually in Windows Media Player.

earthsaver - Jul 5, 2006 - 9:16 am

In the future, when you get to one of these pages, you can view the page source, find wmv in the code, and use the URL or URL fragment with it to reconstruct the URL of the clip so you can paste it in WMP or Safari's download window and retrieve it for yourself. In the case above, the video is playing from http://www.collegeafterhours.com/ and the fragment is content/media/movie_1531.wmv. Put the two together and you're good to go.

earthsaver - Jul 27, 2006 - 10:06 pm

As of today, the Universal Binary version of Flip4Mac is available for download from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

This will solve your problems.