Mac WMP unable to play clips

[Mannequin]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I downloaded and installed windows media player. Now i am trying to listen to sound clips on websites like amazon.com. I click on them and what happens is I get a blank pop up window and thats it. Its like its trying to open a new window in the browser in stead of playing the clip but nothing is there. When I used to use PC what would happen is it would just open windows media player and start playing. I don't know if there is some setting that I'm missing or what. I'm very new to mac so I'm sorry if this is just a dumb question

 

[bousozoku]

If the clips are in WMP 10 format, they won't play on the Mac OS X version of the player, probably because this would give users another reason to switch.

You might look for mplayer, as it may be compatible with more clips.

 

[SummerBreeze]

When I try, it opens a new window with a blank player and then doesn't play the media at all. Have you tried opening it in real player?

 

[Mannequin]

No I havent downloaded real player yet. I guess I will try that.

Is MPlayer for audio files or just video?

thanks!

 

[ericssonboi]

Another good video program is VLC

 

[gammamonk]

Windows Media Player for Mac doesn't include DRM support. As a result any DRM'd file will not play. You'll get "unsupported format." It's really annoying, but Microsoft can do whatever they want.

Could this be your hang-up?

 

[Mannequin]

Maybe, I don't know what drm is

 

[khisayruou]

Realplayer will work for you, but does anyone know how to have it stream the music without having to download that .ram file?!?!? I know I can copy and paste the location, but thats just a pain. I just want to click on the link and have it open realplayer.

 

[grobbins]

Realplayer will work for you, but does anyone know how to have it stream the music without having to download that .ram file?!?!? I know I can copy and paste the location, but thats just a pain. I just want to click on the link and have it open realplayer.

If Safari is not handing off the ram files to RealPlayer, either double-click the ram file icons in Safari's downloads window, or else just use RealPlayer's built-in web browser to click the audio/video links. (Click the document/globe icon in RealPlayer's window to open the browser window.)