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I can't open movies with extension .wmv I get a page of symbols.

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Someone sent me a movie clip extraordinaire_instrument_de_musique.wmv I can't open it correctly. What I get is a file of symbols in textmate. I would like to be able to watch the movie, but don't know how to get around this problem.

Someone sent me a movie clip extraordinaire_instrument_de_musique.wmv I can't open it correctly. What I get is a file of symbols in textmate. I would like to be able to watch the movie, but don't know how to get around this problem.

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cor-el
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You can open that file in your media player, hopefully will QuickTime play such a file. Firefox sees the file as a text file and displays it as such and you do not seem to have a file action in Firefox > Preferences > Applications for .wmv files.