Marc,
Disclaimer: I don't work for Flip4Mac or Microsoft!
You can play Windows Media files on your Mac using QuickTime, if you have
the right codec. One such codec that you might want to try is the WMV
Player product from Flip4Mac. See <http://www.flip4mac.com/>
I have used the product and it works quite well.
As for the .sitx file extension. The extension is associated with the
latest generation of compression products from Aladdin (now Allume). You
can download and install a free expander for .sitx file from
<http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html>
Once you get the expander installed, you should easily be able to install
Microsfot's Windows Media Player.
regards,
douglas
on 5/30/05 4:25 PM, Steven Rogers at email@hidden wrote:
>
> On May 30, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Marc Chanliau wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> For all practical purposes, no.
>
> SR
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