Flip4Mac

I haven't really ever run into that issue, at least not with streaming video. What site is it? Maybe we can determine an alternative. After all, you can get Real, Quicktime and WMV for your Mac. By the way, Google for "flip4mac" It's a Quicktime plugin that lets you watch some popular Windows video formats using Quicktime. It seems to work great and it's free. Doug

I had it happen even before I installed Flip4Mac.

Yes, I get the crashing problem too. Something to do with Flip4Mac possibly? ...

It's an odd kind of a problem. Everything works but the Desktop and as I said the other user accounts were fine. It can't be a big problem, just elusive. I could negotiate via the finder but I couldn't drag anything to the Desktop. The Desktop folder still exists. Same for you? It happened to me when I was messing around uninstalling and reinstalling Flip4Mac.

It sucks, but there's nothing you can do about it, except maybe email the Flip4Mac guys and plead with them to support AVI files. ...

No. Not currently. WMV3 is not supported in .avi files on the Mac. Not in VLC, not with the Flip4Mac plugin and not with MS' Windows Media Player. You'll need a PC to play this file. ...

Flip4Mac ought to handle it automatically.

This is probably all you need: http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/download/ As for other files, it depends on a lot on the type. Most AVIs will be playable with QuickTime (once you install Divx, that is). WMVs can be played through QuickTime if you install Flip4Mac's WMV Player codec (which I think Microsoft is actually giving out for free now). RM files need RealPlayer. Most...

and download Flip4Mac and see if that works for you. ...

Hold down option while emptying the Trash and see if that gets rid of the files. Don't bother with WMP 9 for the Mac as Microsoft has stopped development on it. Instead, download Flip4Mac.