What's lined up is a DMG disk image file. Then scroll down and you can click on the 'Download' button there to start the download. You go there, and you want to click on the 'Windows Media Components for QuickTime.' Click on the 'Free Download' button.

Now once you're there, scroll down on the page and you'll see a 'For Mac' link at the bottom. You're just going to go to /windows/windowsmedia/player. You can get that by going to the Microsoft website. But now instead, the way to do it is to get an add on from QuickTime that will allow you to play WMV files in QuickTime. So not too long ago, the way to do this was to download a Windows Media Player for Mac. When I double click on the video file, instead of playing it, I get a bunch of gibberish opened up in text edit. Here's an email that I just got with a video file in it. Let's take a look at what you need to play these. You can't play them on your Mac unless you download some extra bits of software. It's a file kind of like a QuickTime movie that's specifically made for Windows. Usually, this file has the extension '.WMV' which stands for Windows Media Video. They get an email from somebody, or they get a link to a file that's supposed to be a video, but they try to play it and it doesn't work. OK, so this is a very common problem for Mac users. What are they, and how can you play them on your Mac?

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