I have asked an acquaintance of mine to send me some sample video footage so I can check out the quality of a camcorder. He would like to send them in the "WMV Mediaplayer 9 format" whatever that is. ...

Try Flip4Mac's WMV Player. It's a shareware QT component that allows you to play Windows Media files in Quicktime. If you want to watch Windows Media files on the Mac, this is the best solution, in my ...