Completely uninstall Windows Media Player. Get rid of everything that is connected with it, including preferences. Do a search for any remnants of it, trash them. Completely remove Flip4Mac, a much better program in my opinion, and remove all traces of it.
Download a fresh copy of Windows Media Player and reinstall it.
Hope this helps
P
Dear Gurus,
I can't open the Windows Media Player in OSX.3.9 (the program icon just bounces on the dock but never opens) and if I try to view streaming WMV video over the web (using either Safari or Firefox) my web browser crashes and I have to force quit the program.
I never used to have this problem. I was cruisin' along just fine and then it simply fell into my lap one infamous day while DL'ing various WMV files. I downloaded Flip4Mac right around the same time so as to try and get WMV files to play in QT. Currently, though I can play the WMV files in QT independently, I still crash my web browser when trying to stream them over the web.
It occurred to me that I might be misremembering: perhaps installing Flip4Mac is what triggered the problem. I uninstalled Flip4Mac and disabled the Flip4Mac internet plugin and then re-instantiated the WMV internet plugin... but nothing changed. Media Player still wouldn't open and any streaming WMV content crashed the web browser.
So right now I'm completely stuck and don't know what to do. Windows Media Player doesn't work and I can't stream any WMV files over the net. This doubly sucks because I'm not living in the US right now and stay plugged in to certain programs via the web... no more Daily Show...
I would be very grateful for any help anyone could offer.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick

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