"Safari cannot find the Internet plug-in."

"Safari cannot find the Internet plug-in." is the pop-up I get when I try to view a video on my new iMac. The video is at:American Flyers - FAA Knowledge Test Preparation

The pop-up goes on to say: 'The page "American Flyers - FAA Knowledge Test Preparation" has content of MIME type "application/x-mplayer2". Because you don't have a plug-in installed for this MIME type, this content can't be displayed.'

Would someone please tell me there is an easy fix for this? When this type of problem cropped up in my PC world, Windows usually had a link to install the plug-in. I don't see this on my iMac.


Sam

Download and Install Flip4Mac. The video is playing here and that is what is coming up to play it. While you at it you might also install Perian. With both Flip4Mac and Perian you should be able to play most any video on the net.

Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components

Flip4Mac WMV Products

Thanks for the quick response.

This will be the first third-party software I add to my iMac. I thought a big selling point of Macs is that there wasn't alot of that; the Macs "just works."

The Flip4Mac website seems to imply that I will be getting a trial version. Is that correct? Will I need to buy it?


Sam

No, but unless you pay (Just like with Quicktime and Quicktime Pro) you can not save videos or edit or convert.