[jrmas2005]

To whom it may concern among Mac users worldwide:
I am very much a novice computer user and I live in a part of the world which unfortunately has virtually no local Mac tech. support whatsoever. For your information I have a Graphite iMac 650 which I bought with everything standard in mid-2001 and brought with me to this place, and had been using the OS 9 Operating System and Internet Explorer with fair success almost exclusively until only recently, when I upgraded to OS 10.2.8 with Safari 1.0 (I know I am way behind there still, but I didn't need anything more yet as far as I could tell). I am now having the same troubles over and over again, however, accessing all of the archived Audio content on a subscribers-only financial website to which I belong that I used to get into without much trouble before (using Windows MediaPlayer under the "Classic" Mac operating system, I believe). The following is the error message I now receive when I try to access any of the stored audio content there:


The page "wsufn market place" has content of MIME type "application/x-mplayer2". You do not have a plug-in installed for this MIME type, so this content cannot be displayed.


I am hoping someone can help me interpret this and point me in the right direction towards getting the appropriate plug-in and whatever else it is that I may need. You should know that I already downloaded Widows Media Player for OS 10 onto my desktop (the icon says "Windows Media.sitx"), thinking that this may be the only thing I need to do again, but when I click on that icon I get a message which says the following: "There is no default application specified to open the document 'Windows Media.sitx'" - and I can't seem to go any further to get it installed.

ANY advice and/or feedback on this issue will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, JRM

[SWFan]

You need to install Windows Media Player. Sounds like you've downloaded the file, but I'm not sure where you downloaded it from because the OS X version does not come from Microsoft in .sitx.

Please go to this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloa...gnosysreq=True

There are two compressed files you can choose from, a .bin and a .hqx. Doesn't matter which one you choose, both will work on your system.

Once downloaded, double-click the file and it should auto-decompress a Windows Media Player installation program. Double-click that program and follow the instructions.

[jrmas2005]

Dear SWFan:
Thanks so much for the reply and the advice. But I went to the link at Mactopia which you suggested and downloaded the "bin" version straight away, and then looked at my desktop only to find "Widows Media-1.sitx" just sitting there next to the other one. Trying to open it, of course, I again ran into the same problems.... Any further ideas? Thanks, JRM

[Jacke]

sitx is a Stuffit archive (which you would have found out if you had googled for it). Download Stuffit Expander.
Checking out the site I see that they've made it really cumbersome to download Expander, here's a direct download link for Stuffit Standard 8.0.2 that includes the free Expander. 8.0.2 is the last version to support pre-10.3 systems. It downloads as a DMG file, so when the download is done, just double-click the file and the disk image should mount on your desktop.

[SWFan]

I'm guessing your browser is jacking around with the file downloads. I suggest you try using Firefox or Camino to download the files. You can get Stuffit as the above poster mentioned, but its possible your browser is doing worse to the download so that even Stuffit may not be able to decompress it.

Also, did you try downloading the hqx version?

[jrmas2005]

Dear SWFan and Jacke:
Good news is that, although the hqx version did NOT work by itself either, I was finally able to download the Stuffit Expander via that link and then got the Windows MediaPlayer up and running without too much difficulty... So thank you both again very much, and we´ll probably be in touch if something else comes up - JRM