I'm trying to play a movie that has a .wmv suffix. I can't do that
in Quicktime (or can I?).
No, WMV is the dreaded Windows Media format.
I tried to download the Microsoft player (since wmv seems to be a
Microsoft format), but what I downloaded is a package that has
a .sitx suffix (Windows Media.sitx), and no applications
(apparently) in the mac can install that application.
sitx is a compressed file in StuffIt format. When you unpack that
file, you should get a program called "Windows Media Installer"
There's really no such thing as "install" on the Mac, but WMP has an
installer to handle putting the plug-ins for your browser, and that
sort of thing.
By coincidence, I just downloaded Windows Media Player 9 for OS X
about an hour ago, and I got a file called WindowsMediaInstaller.bin
as the result of the download. (a different compression format) Kind
of strange that you got a different file.
When I double click on Windows Media.sitx (the package I
downloaded), it asks me what application I want to used to install it.
You need one of the uncompression programs (like StuffIt) to open the
file.
First, is there a way to play .wmv files on the Mac.
Yes, with Windows Media Player - the road you started down . . .
Second, if not, is there a third-party package that can
process .wmv files and that can be installed on the Mac as a normal
app.
