Flip4Mac

You might have trouble uncompressing if you have an intel machine. Furthermore, using WMP 9 as a plugin will not work, so, as nixgeek said, try Flip4Mac.

You want Flip4Mac in order to play Windows Media using QuickTime. ...

Unfortunately, WMP 9 will not function as as plugin when running under Rosetta, so you're limited to Flip4Mac, or WMP under Windows on Parallels or Bootcamp. You could also try to use this to run the Windows version of WMP, but I don't know how that will work: http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

Using the exact same version of Safari, and all the latest updates from RealPlayer, Flip4Mac, Flash, etc, it isn't working. Attached are my install plugins..

Yep, it's another case of a video provider offering their content in some weird format. On the outside it looks like a .WMV, but that's where compatibility ends. Flip4Mac does a pretty good job with most of the sites, but there are still too many that offer up the odd stuff and don't conform to the standard. ...

Windows Media Player 9 for MacOS X is no longer supported by Microsot. For non-DRMed content, it plays content up to Windows Media 9 (WMV3). It is also still available for download on Microsoft's website. However, Microsoft recommends Flip4Mac. It allows any non-DRMed Windows Media content up to Windows Media 9 to be opened in any QuickTime-compatible application including...

I assume that you're referring to this site: http://news.sky.com/skynews It looks like a case of a windows format problem. For me, it quits with an error on WMP 9, and nothing happens with Flip4Mac. It probably works with the latest version of WMP, which Microsoft no longer makes for Mac. I'd contact the webmaster and ask them to post their videos in a format that works...

Videos just refuse to play in my usual Safari browser. I've also tried Firefox, i.Cab & Camino browsers, without success. I have Realplayer & Qicktime installed, plus Flip4Mac. I have also tried Camino, set to MSIE6, still no result. Please can you advise?

Ah. If it's only for iTunes (and not for the iPod), then you can do it like this: Install the codecs necessary for Quicktime to understand the .avis. I guess it's DivX/XviD (so www.divx.com should do it) or WMV (then Flip4Mac should do it). Then open the .avi files in QT and save them as .mov files that point to the original .avi file. You'll end up with both an .avi and a...

Well... It all depends on what ".avi" in your case means. If it's simply a Windows Media file, then Flip4Mac (get it from www.microsoft.com/mac somewhere) should do the trick. You open the .avi in QuickTime and save as/export to a .mov file. If this is about DivX/XviD files, then you get the official DivX plugin, for example, and again simply open the file in QuickTime and...