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corinnex - Jul 6, 2006 - 6:22 pm

I have Mac osX and I am new to this - I want to watch video clips so it tells me to download windows Media.sitx. I do the first bit and then it says choose an application. I don't know what to choose or where to go to find out . can anyone help please/

Corinne

earthsaver - Jul 6, 2006 - 7:22 pm

You need to download Stuffit Expander to open .sit and .sitx files. However, before we get to that, what kind of Mac do you have? If not an Intel-based Mac, you can download Flip4Mac's Windows Media Components for QuickTime for a simpler experience.
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/exp-downloadv.html
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28842

- Ben

corinnex - Jul 7, 2006 - 3:40 pm

Thanks for encouragement that I may solve this. I have a Machine Name: iMac
Machine Model: iMac4,1
CPU Type: Intel Core Duo
Number Of Cores: 2
CPU Speed: 1.83 GHz
Hope this is all you need
Corinne

earthsaver - Jul 7, 2006 - 4:43 pm

So, as I said, with an Intel-based Mac, you need to download Stuffit Expander which you can use to expand the .sitx archive containing WMP. Then you can use WMP.

corinnex - Jul 7, 2006 - 6:27 pm

I think that I installed the stuffit thing but this is the message taht comes up now. "The page “BBC News Player” has content of MIME type “application/x-mplayer2”. Because you don’t have a plug-in installed for this MIME type, this content can’t be displayed." How do I get a plug in installed for the MIME type?
Please

Corinne

earthsaver - Jul 7, 2006 - 6:56 pm

Since WMP was developed only for PowerPC and not Intel, it runs in Rosetta, the PowerPC emulation environment on Intel-based Macs. The plugin for Safari only works if you also run Safari in Rosetta. (You can do this by getting Info on Safari in the Finder and choosing to run in Rosetta.)

The alternative is to find out the address of the Windows Media stream at BBC. One was is to look at the source of the page. I would tell you what it is, but a RealPlayer stream comes up for me.

Notably, RealPlayer *is* now a Universal Binary, which means it will run natively on your Intel Mac. If you have a choice of RealPlayer over Windows Media, I would install RealPlayer and use that. Go to http://www.real.com/ and click RealPlayer Free in the upper right.

corinnex - Jul 10, 2006 - 4:49 pm

Thank you for trying to help but it does not work so I think that I will abandon it. I could not find anything called Rosetta anywhere. I did install Real Player though and that does some things but not the BBC things.

Thanks again anyway

Corinne

earthsaver - Jul 10, 2006 - 5:48 pm

If you can't find Rosetta when you File|Get Info on Safari in the Finder, then you'll just have to wait until Flip4Mac releases the Universal Binary version that will work with your computer. Keep an eye on flip4mac.com for details.

corinnex - Jul 13, 2006 - 11:39 am

Many thanks for all your input on this. I am watching flip4mac as Instructed.
C

earthsaver - Jul 27, 2006 - 10:04 pm

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

corinnex - Jul 28, 2006 - 11:54 am

Many thanks for the info. I shall give it a go - will let you know if it works with the things that I was wanting to catch up with.

C