> From: Ian Sidle <ian at iansidle.com> > Yeah. The mac version of windows media player only plays streams (and > compatible with few versions of them at that) not local files/streams. > Uh, no. I can play WMV files that exist on my hard drive with it. Of course, I too prefer mplayerOSX, but the point is that WiMP *does* play most of them just fine. I am told that later this summer a totally new version of WiMP for the Mac will be released that will give us more-or-less codec parity with the Windows version. Gee, only 6 years late. _Chas_ The CPU speed wars are over. We won. http://www.apple.com/powermac/