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Old 02-16-2008, 06:24 PM  
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Originally Posted by cranki View Post
That's not what I mean... it's when I click on a linked WMV... in most cases, it opens the download prompt, but sometimes the wmv behaves like an mpeg and streams in my browser window...
Basically it's because of MIME-type handlers as Diligent said, but in my experience it's usually because the WMV is a wrapper for streamed MMS content.
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