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Mozilla tried to open it as a text file


ive never heard of it doing that before...


A little Googling found the answer to the problem. Here's what you're returning for a read of that file:

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$ curl -I 'http://www.extremeassociates.com/updates/gensmind.wmv'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:24:16 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.18 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Last-Modified: Mon, 17 May 2004 20:35:51 GMT
ETag: "8800f7-1bcf7bc-40a92227"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 29161404
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain

$



The Content-Type is wrong: this is not a text file! The correct MIME type as I understand it is "video/x-ms-wmv" (it's strange, but Microsoft hasn't had a type officially assigned yet).

You don't notice the problem under IE due to a bug in IE.

I'm going to guess at a fix. You're using Apache, and the Apache 2 sources I'm looking at don't know about WMV by default: you need to add it (it does know about MPEG). Look for the file named "mime.types" and add a line like

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video/x-ms-wmv wmv




and restart Apache. I bet it works now.

Meatholes seems to have the same problem, probably for the same reason. I hadn't noticed before because I prefer MPEG.
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