[SOLVED] Anyone had luck with Windows Media Player stuff on TBS.com?

[aysiu]

My wife has a Macbook Pro (with OS X) and wanted to watch some of the "behind the scenes" videos for one of the shows on TBS.com, and she couldn't do it (tried something called Flip4Mac, but that didn't work). Apparently you "need" Windows for this website (boo!).

I thought maybe a Firefox extension like Media Connectivity might do it. No luck there either.

Anyone been able to view that stuff with Mac OS X or Linux? If so, any tips?

[MikeTheC]

You might want to try Perian (http://perian.org/) and see if this helps.

Somewhat unrelated, but maybe also useful, you might want to check out Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/) which is a pretty cool video aggregator.

As I don't watch TV, I have not looked at nor tried anything from TBS. It wouldn't be the first time though that some "major" site decided to lock out everyone not using Windows. Oh well, in the long run it's their loss, not ours.

[bashveank]

All the videos I tried to play worked fine, is there a specific video that you couldn't get to play?

[aysiu]

All the videos I tried to play worked fine, is there a specific video that you couldn't get to play?
Behind the scenes clips from My Boys. I couldn't get it to work in OS X or Ubuntu.

What media player are you using? MPlayer? VLC?

[bashveank]

Hmm, I'm watching a behind the scene clip from My Boys right now and it's fine...
I'm using Quicktime+Perian and Flip4Mac, but the videos on TBS are Flash (at least on my computer...) so that wouldn't even matter.

[aysiu]

Hmm, I'm watching a behind the scene clip from My Boys right now and it's fine...
I'm using Quicktime+Perian and Flip4Mac, but the videos on TBS are Flash (at least on my computer...) so that wouldn't even matter.
It appears that in the month since my original post that TBS has actually switched from Windows Media Player to Flash. So problem solved!