Discover two ways to enjoy your audio and video on your Mac. Flip4Mac provides Windows Media video and audio playback in the QuickTime Player for Mac OS X. Windows Media Player for Mac is also available as a free download from Microsoft, but future updates will be discontinued.
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As an alternative to Windows Media Player for Mac, Microsoft has teamed up with Telestream to make its popular Flip4Mac program available to Macintosh users. With Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.
Note: Flip4Mac does not support content that is protected with Windows Media digital rights management (DRM).
Microsoft will continue to offer Windows Media Player 9 as a free download for Macintosh users, but has no plans to provide future updates or product support for Windows Media Player for Mac. With Windows Media Player for Mac, you can use Windows Media Technologies, including the following:
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Windows Media content playback
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Plug-in support for Internet Explorer (Windows Media Player 9 only)