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Can someone help with internet video?

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I have a new Imac with OSX...when I go to MTV.COM and try to watch videos, this comes up:

"The page “MTV.com: Media Player” 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."

What should I do?
 
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OK, I went to the page. Looks like MTV is carrying over their "suckage factor" from Televison onto the Internet. Looks like Mac users aren't going to be able to view their videos. From their page:

MTV's sucky website said:
In order to offer a broad selection of full-length music videos on-demand and free of charge, MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect videos from unauthorized re-distribution.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available for Macintosh, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works on a Mac.
 
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jiva

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media player won't open

I tried to DL the Windows Media Player for Mac, but it doesn't come up!!!
Stuffit starts to bring it up in the dock, than it just fades away...

???
 
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MightyMac

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i tried it, too. Funny how the commercial advertisment works just fine. mtv sucks. carson daily sucks.
 
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Well the ads aren't drm so they should work fine.

It's only encrypted content that won't play.
 
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MightyMac

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yeah i knew that. it was my attempt at an editorial commentary on commercialism, not a question that i was actually pondering. But your intention to provide help is greatly admired.
 
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blueturtles

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i also can't watch videos in yahoo news...is this the same thing? are mac users doomed from yahoo news videos too? if you guys could help me w this one i'd appreciate it.

thanks
 
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blueturtles said:
i also can't watch videos in yahoo news...is this the same thing? are mac users doomed from yahoo news videos too? if you guys could help me w this one i'd appreciate it.

thanks
Do you have WMP for Mac? That is all you should need. I don't have any problems watching the Yahoo! new videos.
 
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i do have WMP for mac. i have a powerbook g4 1.33ghz, a mac mini, and a imac g5 and none of them can view videos from cnn and yahoo. it's annoying and i still haven't been able to solve this problem
 
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I have no issues watching videos from CNN, ABCNews, etc. Only MSNBC (go figure) and MTV of course won't because of the DRM.

Even if you have the Mac version of WMP it doesn't support the DRM required to watch videos at MTV's site.
 

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