I downloaded Windows Media Player and used stuffit expander to open it. If I go to applications and open WMP it'll open a window so it seems to have been installed. What I need is it to work when I'm watching things like tomgreen.com or ebaumsworld or things like that where the video is inside the browser. What do I need to do?
I accidentally posted this in the other forum, and they gave me a link to Flip4it but it says it won't work on intel systems. Is there anything else?
On an Intel Mac?
Happening This is simply because Windows Media Player is a PPC application, while Safari is a Universal Binary. In short, because Safari is running as an Intel process, it can't tell the OS that it needs to open the Windows Media Player plugin through Rosetta.
The fix is to head on over to your Applications folder, click on Safari and Get Info (Command-I) and check the little box saying "Open using Rosetta." This will force Safari to run through Rosetta, and thus restore function of your various non-Intel plugins. I discovered this while having a problem with Shockwave.
Until universal versions of Shockwave and Flip4Mac (which I couldn't get to work right even on my PPC) are released, you might want to do what I did. Remove the checkmark from the "Open using Rosetta" box, close the Info window and head back to Applications. Highlight the Safari icon, copy it and paste it back into Applications. Click on the filename and renamed it "Safari-Rosetta" or something similar. On this icon only, do Command-I again, and recheck the Rosetta option. I then dragged the second Safari icon to my Dock, to the right of the original.
This give you a quick, native version of Safari for all your general websites, and a version that will run in Rosetta mode as it's needed for those sites requiring Windows Media and Shockwave and whatever else. Effective, and easily un-doable when updates are ready.
Hope this helps (and makes sense!)
